Wow, you actually just made me think of something that could have been a great change for GitHub.<p>Rather than completely limiting private repos in their old pricing model, they could have limited &quot;active&quot; repos, and created an archive feature, where archived repos were not available via Git, but still existed as backups and in case you ever wanted to make them active again.<p>I do, however, believe that the new, per-user pricing is more sustainable. File storage is rather cheap; running Git pull &#x2F; push is not necessarily.