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One could argue that both Atlassian and Github were to some extent successful, because they kept the open source competitors away by giving out free licenses to
by jpalomaki 8y ago
One could argue that both Atlassian and Github were to some extent successful, because they kept the open source competitors away by giving out free licenses to open source projects.
With these free options available, people in community were less interested in putting effort to free (as in speech) alternatives for these closed source products.
- jononor 8y agoYes this is likely. However we can have our cake and eat it too, companies can host an instance of an open source service. Like Gitlab does EDIT, yes I am aware that there are some non open parts in Gitlab.com
- exikyut 8y agoWhat parts of gitlab.com are non-open?
- OJFord 8y agoThey refer to it at as 'open-core': https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-github-is-closed-source https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-gith... I thought this was interesting to re-read in light of this news, so I've resubmitted it for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225725
- exikyut 8y agoGood call :) it just went from #13 to #12 on the front page.