Of course you do, but github remains the defacto place to showcase your opensource projects. And having the ability to have your repo private before publishing it so you can polish it before releasing is quite nice.
Yes, but actually no. Your school had to be part of the "student pack" programe. If by any chance you are a student in a school which was not part of this programe you would be out of luck.
I'm probably not paying much attention, but what has Microsoft done with GitHub?
Funding? Running Github is an expensive endeavor.
Still they haven't done anything. They just provided the funds.
If I am not mistaken, they also made new features such as actions or projects.
Free private repos, to some that may not sound a lot, but to students ...
I have that at gitlab too, and that without Microsoft.
Of course you do, but github remains the defacto place to showcase your opensource projects. And having the ability to have your repo private before publishing it so you can polish it before releasing is quite nice.
Github Student already made private repos free to students before Microsoft swooped in js
Yes, but actually no. Your school had to be part of the "student pack" programe. If by any chance you are a student in a school which was not part of this programe you would be out of luck.
Github Student made it free for students, under those conditions. Now, everyone has private repos!