I fully believe the EEE problem still exists at Microsoft but fail to see how this feature is a part of that. This has been something OSS maintainers have asked for for ages.
Do you have specific arguments against it?
Do you have specific arguments against it?
Also, this still doesn't address the EEE angle.
Extend, add repositories which profit from copyleft software which mandates publishing source, but github enables the thieves to hide and exploit the original developers work.
Extinguish, community now works with the thieves and contributes to parasitic repos instead of open source repositories.
Private repositories and paywall repositories are absolutely not open source.
Github must have independent auditors review private repositories and paywall repositories to prevent theft of opensource or be treated as part of the theft itself.