How do you mean open source? I can work on a project or whatever in a private repo then release it as open source, or close source, or both. If it is not ready it hurts the open source probably to have half implemented, broken, unmaintained junk.<p>Now it makes Github look good -- look we have millions of users, billions of lines of code, so many repos. You can see it here it all.<p>Of course it is important to realize it is free and provided by Github with their infrastructure. So certainly not implying that owe people with free repos anything and if they want those terms of agreement for whatever reason then that&#x27;s fine.<p>I just don&#x27;t necessarily agree that what github is doing is necessarily to benefit &quot;open source&quot; as movement (if there is such a thing).