On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Bradley Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> In light of this thread: > > <http://groups.google.com/group/github/browse_thread/thread/ > a434ef8706d98c03/60f18755c64aae3c?hl=en> > > (which I can't bump because Google has closed it), and this Twitter > from PJ: Ah, Google. > <http://twitter.com/pjhyett/status/2011882344>: > >> To be clear, GitHub:FI is meant for larger teams and priced as such. >> If you have a three-person shop, you should be using http://github.com > > I'm curious what small teams (like my company, which is a start up of > exactly 3 people, much like GitHub) are supposed to do when they have > legal or security reasons for not wanting to use a public repository? > We have both licensing and security requirements as to why we can't > use GitHub. The security reasons aren't "my boss won't let me use > GitHub" reasons, but real reasons of intellectual property and wanting > to have vetted employees who can see the code (given our business > model relies on control of our source code, much like GitHub's, in > fact). For three person companies we run github.com. I'm sorry if you have requirements which don't allow you to take advantage of it - we're always happy to have more customers. But what you're "supposed" to do, if you're asking for GitHub's official view on the matter, is to use github.com. The site was designed for and is used by small companies. > That said, the quote above, and lack of response from GitHub to our > inquiry about pricing lead me to suspect this might not be suitable > for our needs: but really we'd like to make up our own mind as a > business about whether the price is prohibitive or not. I've been > giving GitHub money via my personal account for almost a year now, and > am happy to continue doing so. I'd really like to use it for work, > too. But the prevailing attitude seems to be that it's unsuitable for > our needs. If you fill out the contact form on http://fi.github.com/pricing.html we can start working towards getting you a quote. There is no fixed pricing as on github.com because FI has many more variables: size of the team, special needs of the team, and support requirements. > So if it's not small teams, what kind of teams is this product aimed > at? Large teams. :) But seriously: it's for anyone who feels it's worth the investment. Specifically it's for the many, many people who have requested something like this from us. Generally they've been larger teams, but there's no reason a one person shop couldn't take advantage of FI. Sorry if this is unhelpful, but going through the FI form is the best way for us to have a conversation about whether or not FI can meet your needs. Cheers, -- Chris Wanstrath http://github.com/defunkt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
