On: New GitHub Terms of Service

[ceejayoz]

That's not Github's primary use for the software they host.

The idea that they'd want to save a few thousand bucks by stealing someone's proprietary code to run Github.com itself is simply silly - it'd risk their reportedly multi-billion dollar valuation.

[mercer → ceejayoz]

I agree that this is the most likely reality, but isn't it just good 'due diligence' to make sure that this is properly hammered down in the ToS?