TravisCI bought goodwill and marketing of their paid offering by offering free builds for open source products.
Effectively removing or severely restricting that benefit will essentially lose the goodwill and word of mouth marketing.
It's true that to criticise someone giving you something for free is being a "choosing beggar", but that's not really what's happening here. TravisCI has bought something with their free offering, so it's fair that they lose that when they revoke that offering.
Effectively removing or severely restricting that benefit will essentially lose the goodwill and word of mouth marketing.
It's true that to criticise someone giving you something for free is being a "choosing beggar", but that's not really what's happening here. TravisCI has bought something with their free offering, so it's fair that they lose that when they revoke that offering.