We are a very small company in Switzerland and while I really like github’s user centric view (as opposed to gitorious’ project centric) and the featureset in general, I feel really uncomfortable to upload any of our code to a server of a third party company in a foreign country I’m not familiar with its legislation.

(yes. we are doing proprietary software – mainly because it’s closely tied into our customers ERP systems and I could not opensource that without their permission which I would never get. We do try, though, to push all our modifications to open source software we use upstream – with various levels of acceptance by these projects).

I was quite excited about the prospects of having the functionality of GitHub and the security of something I control myself (assuming that their binary does not still upload the code somewhere).

Naturally, I used their form to request a quote, but I have not heard back from them since. Maybe because we are “just” 6 developers at this time.

In my request to them I made clear that I will never be able to / comfortable with using any of their subscription models.

I never heard back from them, so I assume fear of cannibalizing their subscription model is larger than the prospect of gaining one more (admittedly) small customer.

But I would still have loved to at least get a reply from them.

Philip