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moonman
@critialcloudkicker technically it is many repositories, roughly 1:1 ratio of project to repo. if your software is FOSS, they let you host it for free. If you pay, you can have private repositories. The value proposition of Github is that it probably is cheaper for you to use github to host your code than having a dedicated sysadmin and you get much more reliability. The other thing it adds is a really nice collaborative interface for contributors. the problems with it are mostly due to its popularity, too much stuff is in github so when it goes down then everybody is screwed until it comes back up. And the other problem from my perspective is that they started executing editorial control over repo contents. So for example, at one point they started scanning all the repos for offensive words and locking them until you removed the words or got an exception from them. Ex: someone got their project locked because it had the word "retards" in it b…