Actually, I do want free private repos to exist as a mostly open source developer. I often start cooking a project in a private repo. If it leads nowhere I just keep the repository private. Usually that meant moving it to BitBucket because I only have 5 private repos on GitHub[1]. Once I am happy with the quality or usefulness, I clean up the history and make the repository public.<p>[1] Yep, my BitBucket account is basically a graveyard.