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> I still don't know how I feel about GitLab. My initial reaction was that they were an underhanded, cheap knockoff of GitHub. It felt kind of dirty, like they
by lexicality 11y ago
> I still don't know how I feel about GitLab. My initial reaction was that they were an underhanded, cheap knockoff of GitHub. It felt kind of dirty, like they were stealing GitHub's thunder and giving it away for free.
Seems like they were just following in the footsteps of one of Open Source's great prophets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Events_leading_to_GNU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Events_leadin...
- cyphar 11y agoRichard Stallman is the "prophet" of free software. The EE license is not a free software license (and probably isn't an open source one either). The given license doesn't give you any of the four essential freedoms.