Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups

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> A better law would be to forbid "free" offerings by companies. They all are fraudulent "free", since you pay a commercial entity with either money or data. And, corporate "free" rarely stays free. When we first launched Userify[1], it was completely free. After a while, we realized that was kind of a dumb decision and decided to charge, and we lost zero customers. (We decided to only charge if you actually were running more than 20 servers.) And still today, ten years later, Userify has 20 actual servers for free, and there are no restrictions (time or otherwise). Once you hit 21, you have to pay, but if you want to keep using it with less than 20 servers, you can do so permanently, and we have many, many companies that are using it for a single project (or for their entire smaller company). So, for us at least, "unlimited" free turned out to be very difficult for us in practice (I suppose that VC would have pushed us to get rid of it), but I don't fully agree that "free" means "fraudulent [not actually] free", and I definitely disagree that "free" should be forbidden, both from an business or consumer perspective. Some things truly are free. Probably some of these are even abusing it a bit, but we have tried to measure this and we don't think there's too much abuse, and we look at it as cheaper than advertising and it's a way to give back to the community. Userify probably wouldn't exist today if we hadn't offered a free plan in the beginning. 1. https://userify.com provides "SSH key management", but really what it does is distribute a user's authorized SSH keys across all the servers they're allowed to log into and provide a nice color red/green dashboard to show who has what sudo access.

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