<story><title>Bitbucket now rocks Git</title><url>http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bitbucket-now-rocks-git/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krobertson</author><text>I doubt it. There is no need for them to, they aren&apos;t hurting or struggling.&lt;p&gt;Running businesses with &quot;lets offer more for free&quot; and &quot;ohh crap, they offer more for free, lets lower our price&quot; is a race to the bottom.&lt;p&gt;It is actually moves like these that make me question Bitbucket more.  How viable is the service long term? Do I want to trust all my own code to them?</text></item><item><author>ollysb</author><text>Free unlimited private repos for up to 5 users; with competition like that maybe we&apos;ll see github improve it&apos;s pricing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ergo14</author><text>You sound like an apple customer, you get more for same price and consider this a bad thing... Pigs indeed fly.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&apos;t cost them a lot more in infrastructure to provide alternate dvcs - so your point seems to be completly invalid.
More and more I&apos;m starting to think that git is some kind of religion.&lt;p&gt;We benefit from competition between those 2 platforms and in the end this is what should count the most for us - customers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bitbucket now rocks Git</title><url>http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bitbucket-now-rocks-git/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krobertson</author><text>I doubt it. There is no need for them to, they aren&apos;t hurting or struggling.&lt;p&gt;Running businesses with &quot;lets offer more for free&quot; and &quot;ohh crap, they offer more for free, lets lower our price&quot; is a race to the bottom.&lt;p&gt;It is actually moves like these that make me question Bitbucket more.  How viable is the service long term? Do I want to trust all my own code to them?</text></item><item><author>ollysb</author><text>Free unlimited private repos for up to 5 users; with competition like that maybe we&apos;ll see github improve it&apos;s pricing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitsweet</author><text>Bitbucket is funded by Atlassian - their other products have a huge install base at enterprises across the world. Atlassian could probably run Bitbucket at a loss as marketing  if they wanted to</text></comment>