| I hate when companies steal from competitors. There are many examples to that unfortunately. Sometimes the copycat is thought to be the original because it meets a bigger audience sooner, or provides same services cheaper[0]. I respect the open source culture at GitLab. I like how transparent they are, how they handle issues together with the community. But, this is a feature that is very generic. You can't blame a phone company to put a camera to their phone because company-x had it before. > It'd probably have been better handled more subtly. I don't think they should've handled it at all, because of their past. Today's GitLab is very different than when it was first launched as an open source project - while the logo was more like a cat[1][2]. But being passive aggressive to GitHub, the company that they think that is stealing their ideas, while still having parts that are remnants of a copy/paste job from that same GitHub, I don't know. This shouldn't mean that GitHub or anyone can steal freely GitLab's ideas. It's hard to find a solution as to how one can fix such past mistakes, but maybe an acknowledgement/owning before going defense mode help. > If I host critical code somewhere, it has to be available… +1, GitHub had hiccups too, but they have been pretty solid. [0]: https://venturebeat.com/2014/03/30/threes-vs-2048-when-rip-o... [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130602065750im_/http://www.git... [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131228051528/http://gitlab.org... |
