[outside1234]

"please buy us with the money!"

[0des]

Starting to see this a lot, and it makes all the words of encouragement feel fake, because it is always using words like "we" and linking back to their own stuff. It comes off as hollow.

nerds: stop bringing your own cake to other people's birthday parties.

[Zababa]

> nerds: stop bringing your own cake to other people's birthday parties.

What does this have to do with nerds? Articles like that are probably written by PR staff.

[0des]

Not sure you're aware but, that's the CEO of Gitlab. It's poor taste, by nerds who should know better. We should be better than this.

[Zababa]

I don't understand your insistance on "nerds" and don't see who "we" is supposed to be.

[badosu]

"we" as a company as opposed to the authors spontaneous feelings. I don't know about the nerd thing though

[Zababa]

Does that mean that 0des is speaking as a Gitlab employee here? I'm sorry if the question is stupid, the whole thing sounds very confusing to me.

[psygn]

Yeah, unless it's ice cream cake. I'm a sucker for that...

[zenlikethat]

Or perhaps they just want to give a shout out to a fairly rare bird, the massively successful open source company... or both.

[hantusk]

Gitlab just IPO'ed this year. It seems unlikely, that this would be a motivation.

[skrebbel]

Maybe my Google Fu is failing me, but doesn't gitlab have double the market cap than HashiCorp right now? What money would they buy them with?