GitHub Lowers Price Plans and made its Core Features Free for everyone

The CEO of GitHub Nat Friedman on Tuesday announced a plan that had been in the works for quite some time now, nstating that the changes were not related to the COVID-19 worldwide health crisis. The new structure allows access to GitHub's private repositories with unlimited collaborators for all GitHub accounts.

In the past years, any organization that intend using GitHub for private development, have to subscribe to one of GitHub's paid plans. However, all developers should have access to GitHub without price being a barrier, Friedman said. Teams now can manage their work in one place, including continuous integration and continuous delivery or deployment (CI/CD) software engineering, project management, code review, package management, and more.

Friedman in his speech said "We want everyone to be able to ship great software on the platform developers love". Those who need advanced features such as code owners or security assertion markup language (SAML), or personalized support teams can upgrade to one of GitHub's reduced-fee paid plans. This is a very significant move for open source. GitHub has changed the development world by giving engineers the freedom to use and collaborate though public and private repositories, observed Netdata CEO Costa Tsaousis.

Now, more engineers will have access to a tool where they can contribute to other projects or create their own," he told LinuxInsider.