• lysdexic@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    There would be no other incentive for companies to buy it.

    A company might want to extend it’s service offering with a build pipeline/CICD system, and buying GitLab would get them the best-in-class service.

    Microsoft bought GitHub for much of the same reasons, and GitHub didn’t went to hell after the acquisition.

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      2 months ago

      considering all GitHub projects (including private ones that didn’t explicitly opt out) were used for training AI. GitHub absolutely went to hell after the acquisition. I would never use GitHub for this and many other reasons, and I will never again use GitLab if the same thing happens to it.

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      2 months ago

      So many errors in what you’ve written aren’t with the fact that one can INSTALL a copy of gitlab and get the CI/CD features, but actually with simple English.