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> Seeing GitHub acquired, I’d speculate that Gitlab will go that route sooner or later. Bingo. It's bizarre to hear people stampeding to GitLab when they're s

> Seeing GitHub acquired, I’d speculate that Gitlab will go that route sooner or later. Bingo. It's bizarre to hear people stampeding to GitLab when they're subject to the same financial and revenue pressures as GitHub or any other business. Somebody's paying for those servers and bandwidth and that somebody is expecting a return on their investment.

Kudos 8y ago
Whatever happens to Gitlab, you have the option of hosting the open source edition yourself. If they get acquired by Oracle in the morning, a fork could conceivably rise to take its place.
- ThrowawayR2 8y ago
  > Whatever happens to Gitlab, you have the option of hosting the open source edition yourself. The whole _point_ of Github was that you didn't have to host anything yourself. Just create an account and, bam, off you go. On top of that, even if you did want to host Gitlab yourself, it's "open core", not open source. You'd lose a ton of functionality.
  - Kudos 8y ago
    > The whole _point_ of Github was that you didn't have to host anything yourself. Just create an account and, bam, off you go. So, just like gitlab.com? > On top of that, even if you did want to host Gitlab yourself, it's "open core", not open source. You'd lose a ton of functionality. That functionality is geared towards enterprise. If you are one, you should be doing your own risk evaluation. If not, you're probably fine with the open source edition.
  - ams6110 8y ago
    When you offload responsibility, you offload control.
- foepys 8y ago
  I hear that again and again but GitLab is so massively complex now, that I don't think anybody without a company of at least 10 full time employees will be able to maintain and reasonably extend it.
TAForObvReasons 8y ago
The difference is that Gitlab has publicly stated, from the beginning, that the goal is an IPO: > Stay independent so we can preserve our values. Since we took external investment we need a liquidity event. To stay independent we want that to be an IPO instead of being acquired. https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/ https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/
- bigtones 8y ago
  This is such bull. They are backed by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures who would vote with their preferential shares to sell GitLab for $7.5 Billion dollars without question. They're in the exact same bucket as GitHub except no where near as successful.
- skinnymuch 8y ago
  There’s no way Gitlab is turning down multiple billions of dollars like GitHub. They likely burn even more money than GitHub since their free offerings are bigger.
tonto 8y ago
travis-ci has a pledge to keep their open source free tier always available. I don't know how much they stand by it but theyve said it on twitter and their plans page says "Always free for open source projects"

Kudos 8y ago

Whatever happens to Gitlab, you have the option of hosting the open source edition yourself. If they get acquired by Oracle in the morning, a fork could conceivably rise to take its place.

ThrowawayR2 8y ago
> Whatever happens to Gitlab, you have the option of hosting the open source edition yourself. The whole _point_ of Github was that you didn't have to host anything yourself. Just create an account and, bam, off you go. On top of that, even if you did want to host Gitlab yourself, it's "open core", not open source. You'd lose a ton of functionality.
- Kudos 8y ago
  > The whole _point_ of Github was that you didn't have to host anything yourself. Just create an account and, bam, off you go. So, just like gitlab.com? > On top of that, even if you did want to host Gitlab yourself, it's "open core", not open source. You'd lose a ton of functionality. That functionality is geared towards enterprise. If you are one, you should be doing your own risk evaluation. If not, you're probably fine with the open source edition.
- ams6110 8y ago
  When you offload responsibility, you offload control.
foepys 8y ago
I hear that again and again but GitLab is so massively complex now, that I don't think anybody without a company of at least 10 full time employees will be able to maintain and reasonably extend it.

TAForObvReasons 8y ago

The difference is that Gitlab has publicly stated, from the beginning, that the goal is an IPO: > Stay independent so we can preserve our values. Since we took external investment we need a liquidity event. To stay independent we want that to be an IPO instead of being acquired. https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/ https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/

bigtones 8y ago
This is such bull. They are backed by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures who would vote with their preferential shares to sell GitLab for $7.5 Billion dollars without question. They're in the exact same bucket as GitHub except no where near as successful.
skinnymuch 8y ago
There’s no way Gitlab is turning down multiple billions of dollars like GitHub. They likely burn even more money than GitHub since their free offerings are bigger.

tonto 8y ago

travis-ci has a pledge to keep their open source free tier always available. I don't know how much they stand by it but theyve said it on twitter and their plans page says "Always free for open source projects"