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by andrewstuart2 1339 days ago
You can absolutely use GitLab to the highest levels of productivity and effectiveness without paying a cent. It just tends to require more input and effort and results in tool sprawl if you want to recreate the GitLab EE experience for free. It's possible for many of the important features, and where it's not possible, it's usually not critical.

GitLab is, imo, one of the best examples of how to do paid open source. Especially because they've gone about it without the relicensing switch that many companies have attempted in order to "protect their business/product."