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by knownothing 2934 days ago
I'd like to point out that GitLab is not independent. They are owned by investors, including Google Ventures. So anyone who thinks they're giving GitHub/MS the finger by migrating their repos, please be ready to move everything again when GitLab disappoints you.
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DouweM 2934 days ago
GitLab engineer here: our CEO has responded to exactly that concern in https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003415290368028672 and https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003337681668005888. To quote:

> We'll have a liquidity event. We're aiming for an IPO https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#goals but we can't rule out an acquisition.

And it's worth pointing out that you can run GitLab on your own server, so even if GitLab.com ever ends up disappointing you, you don't need to go through the trouble of migrating to the next best thing.

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deadcast 2934 days ago
Or then I could just host it myself using their open tech and everything would be fine again. :)
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naiveai 2934 days ago
Google has done a lot of shit before, but I sure as hell trust them more than Microsoft at the moment when it comes to acquisitions.
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nojvek 2934 days ago
Care to explain what? Satya Microsoft is day/night different between Ballmer MIcrosoft.

Meanwhile Sundar Pichai Google hasn’t been the friendliest.

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mort96 2934 days ago
Windows is still doing a lot of bullshit with ads in the start menu and forced updates. A bunch of their open source stuff which has included spyware has been less than upfront about including spyware.
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zik 2934 days ago
I think what happened to Skype is a case in point. It doesn't matter who's running Microsoft, after that disaster I don't think anyone's going to be trusting them.
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cygned 2933 days ago
Skype has basically become unusable for professional communication. It’s getting worse with every update. I kind of expect the same for Github then. That’s my concern.
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simonlc 2934 days ago
What about Windows 10?
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rambojazz 2934 days ago
This. Thank you for pointing this out. Also I have a hard time trusting the "community + proprietary" model...
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malinens 2932 days ago
They are actually advertising google cloud platform in self-hosted versions now:

https://i.imgur.com/OgrNMxn.png

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