SourceTree was originally shareware – I'm pretty sure I expensed a license at whatever job I was at. When Atlassian bought SourceTree in 2011 their grand plan was to pimp it out in order to drive customers to Bitbucket. Eventually they were going to charge for it (so the worst of both worlds really). I noped out because it was clear that Atlassian wanted SourceTree to become a bitbucket client instead of remaining a git+subversion client.
I don't want a bitbucket account and never bothered to check how often it would phone home to ensure you had an up-to-date bitbucket account. I think the Sublime folks have a better track record here and I fully expect Sublime Merge to get to the point where I'd want to buy it if I wanted a git GUI.
Unfortunately for Atlassian, by 2011 Bitbucket already lost out to Github and they hadn't realized it yet.
I don't want a bitbucket account and never bothered to check how often it would phone home to ensure you had an up-to-date bitbucket account. I think the Sublime folks have a better track record here and I fully expect Sublime Merge to get to the point where I'd want to buy it if I wanted a git GUI.
Unfortunately for Atlassian, by 2011 Bitbucket already lost out to Github and they hadn't realized it yet.