Microsoft has made GitHub's core features free for teams of any size for the first time.

Judge as of 2020-04-30. True: by about that date, GitHub (owned by Microsoft) had announced that core features, such as unlimited private repositories with unlimited collaborators, were free for organisations or teams of any size, and this was the first time free access had covered teams of any size. Mostly true: the free offering was announced as described, but a minor detail differs, for example exactly which features counted as 'core' or the announcement came a few weeks earlier. Mostly false: only a narrower free tier was offered (for example capped team sizes or only individuals), or teams of any size already had the same free offering earlier, so 'for the first time' is wrong. False: no such free offering for teams was announced by that date.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 GitHub is now free for teams GitHub Blog (github.blog) · 14 April 2020 Own record

   “Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.”

2. E2 GitHub is now free for all teams | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 14 April 2020

   “GitHub today announced that all of its core features are now available for free to all users, including those that are currently on free accounts. That means free unlimited private repositories with unlimited collaborators for all, including teams that use the service for commercial projects”

3. E3 GitHub Now Supports Unlimited Collaborators in Free Private Repositories, Lowers Monthly Fees CNX Software · 15 April 2020

   “until now developers could only use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free and had to switch to a paid plan to work with a larger team.”

4. E4 GitHub is now free for all teams | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 14 April 2020

   “But last January, the company decided to give access to unlimited private projects to all free users, though those were limited to three collaborators at a time.”

On 2020-04-14, before the claim date, TechCrunch reported that GitHub had made all of its core features free for all users (E2). That included unlimited private repositories with unlimited collaborators for teams, even teams working on commercial projects. GitHub's own blog post from the same day says the same thing (E1). Independent reports say free private repositories had previously been limited to three collaborators (E3, E4), so this was the first time free access covered teams of any size.