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>>ig0r0+(OP)
Hi HN, I'm the CEO of GitHub. Everyone at GitHub is really excited about this announcement, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that it's grown dramatically in the last year, and so we're able to make GitHub free for teams that don't need Enterprise features.

We also retained our Team pricing plan for people who need email support (and a couple of other features like code owners).

In general we think that every developer on earth should be able to use GitHub for their work, and so it is great to remove price as a barrier.

>>natfri+V2
This is a great change! One request: I wish that SAML was not an enterprise feature. SAML ought be a basic security feature like 2FA—it's especially valuable for open source teams who might use a mixture of services, and an easily accessible and cheap SSO solution would go a long way in raising the security bar for all teams, not just open source teams.

>>thramp+Q3
I'd never heard of SAML before. Is it like a more complicated version of OAuth?

>>tobinf+g9
SAML has been around longer and handles AuthN and AuthZ

OAuth only does AuthZ. I've always found OAuth more complicated because you have to combine it with other technologies to get AuthN

>>kube-s+Ib
For those like me who had never heard these abbreviations:

AuthN: Authentication (who you are) AuthZ: Authorization (what you are allowed to do)