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> if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet. Sorry, but this is unfair :) I remember the early days of Gitlab, before
by oelmekki 9y ago
> if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet.
Sorry, but this is unfair :) I remember the early days of Gitlab, before they added all the insanely cool features they have now, when they were just a Github opensource copycat. My thought at the time was : "wow, github is super cool to let them go. At least the almost exact design copy could be a legal problem". Clearly, we would have heard about Github vs Gitlab back then, if Github wanted to lock people in.
- johannes1234321 9y agoWell, if we "heard about GitHub vs. Gitlab" more people outside HN might hear about GitLab. Might be more dangerous, than the chances of a win shutting GitLab down.
- chucksmash 9y agoSo you fault them for being evil geniuses by not acting evilly?
- syshum 9y agoMore likely they got sound legal advice and realized they could not actually win in court, or their investors killed that idea as a waste of money You do not hear about many VC funded startups initiating lawsuits for a reason. That is the realm of established companies.