That&#x27;s exactly my point in wondering about the ratio of students to established company professionals.<p>For every company I&#x27;ve ever worked at, the &quot;community&quot; or &quot;network effect&quot; of a source control vendor is meaningless.  Because the repos are all private.  Sure, the company might have SOME open source stuff mirrored on GitHub for publicity purposes.  But the real bread-and-butter daily WORK that pays the bills takes place in private repos.  In most cases, private repos that are hosted on-prem rather than in the cloud.<p>Sure, GitHub and its &quot;network effect&quot; matters for open source projects, and for resume-fodder side projects we tinker with as individuals.  But all of that is free anyway.  What about the scenarios where you&#x27;d have to pay GitHub a lot of money?  How many vocal people on HN are actually IN that scenario?