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Jokes aside, you actually make a good point. github is loosing money like crazy while gitlab and bitbucket are actually profitable.
by pawadu 9y ago
Jokes aside, you actually make a good point.
github is loosing money like crazy while gitlab and bitbucket are actually profitable.
- detaro 9y agosource on that claim? If I remember right, the last numbers I published (from some bloomberg article last year) showed them spending a lot, but profitable.
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoNot parent but here you go: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is... They're not expecting to be profitable right now but their loses have risen quite a bit.
- detaro 9y agoThx, that was the article I was thinking about, and clearly remembered wrong.
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoGitHub is losing money but that doesn't mean GitLab and BitBucket are profitable. BitBucket is part of a larger organization so it really doesn't matter if it loses money. As for GitLab I can't find anything but by 2019 they're expecting SaaS to be the majority of the way they make money (which is identical to GitHub) so I'm not sure why you expect the incumbent to fail and the underdog to succeed with identical business models. Sure it's possible but I don't get it. Don't forget as more of these OSS projects take advantage of GitLab's free repositories the more money GitLab will lose.