Microsoft’s shareholders are probably very pleased about this. But if Microsoft needs to please its shareholders and turn the revenue dial up a bit again (say, because they’ve got themselves tied up in a huge economic bubble, and need to bolster the bottom line after it pops), they might choose to take away some of those free goodies. In fact, it’s not just a hypothetical – they started doing that just recently. https://web.archive.org/web/20260223084443/https://github.com/resources/insights/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions Those changes are ‘postponed’, but assume they will come.