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I strongly disagree. GitLab is open core because I can run and use the software in a meaningful way under open source licenses. MacOs is substantially differe
by pythonaut_16 8y ago
I strongly disagree.
GitLab is open core because I can run and use the software in a meaningful way under open source licenses.
MacOs is substantially different because I cannot take their open source kernel and run a functioning version of MacOs
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- jordigh 8y agoWell, you used to be able to do that with macOS, but I think they stopped that from happening in the last few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#OpenDarwin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Open... Gitlab may one day also decide that their core is too large and too useful to let everyone play with it too. Also, you're not strongly disagreeing with me. I said the same thing, the only difference is that you can get most (but not all) of the useful things from whatever GitLab currently considers its core to be.
- innerspirit 8y agoGoogle took the same approach with Android, releasing non-OSS versions of their OSS apps, and not updating the OSS ones anymore.