As many open source projects have demonstrated, even if the company backing the project fails, if the community is strong, the project will continue to evolve.

As many open source projects have demonstrated, even if the company backing the project fails, if the community is strong, the project will continue to evolve. Same can not be said for Github. Gitlab while does provide free sass services, their servers are notorious in terms of reliability. Many Gitlab users like it because we want to host the application ourselves. There was always bitbucket for free private repos. People are not moving because it is free, they move because they have great control over their code base.