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Yeah, well...Gitlab is also built on libgit2 and rugged. The core libraries that power Gitlab’s interaction with Git? Those are open-source projects written by
by irq11 8y ago
Yeah, well...Gitlab is also built on libgit2 and rugged. The core libraries that power Gitlab’s interaction with Git? Those are open-source projects written by Github.
I did some work with libgit and rugged and said to myself that I was shocked Github was open-sourcing such a core competency...these libraries make it pretty easy for an average web programmer to build their own Github.
Github has been pretty damned generous to the open-source community, and it’s sad to see a fast-follower project use this kind of rhetoric successfully.
- kbutler 8y agoAcknowledged in the article: """GitHub very actively contributes to open source themselves, including many contributions to Git and Ruby on Rails, and releasing libraries and applications like libgit2, Atom, and Hubot. Also note that we build GitLab with software that GitHub open sourced such as libgit2."""
- dnomad 8y agoThe article is profoundly dishonest. They've built their whole company on open source code provided by the "closed source company" Github. Here's the truth that so many seem to be in denial about: it is "closed source" companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM and Oracle that produce the overwhelming majority of high-quality open source software. It's not even close. Over the last ten years these companies have given away billions of dollars in value in the form of open source software. These companies have done much more for open-source than GitLab and their buggy Javascript ever will.