That's true, but to be fair, the complaint is in the context of someone running their own instance of a private Gitlab service. Gitlab licenses their software,

That's true, but to be fair, the complaint is in the context of someone running their own instance of a private Gitlab service. Gitlab licenses their software, and Github doesn't. So you don't have to worry directly about how much the server is costing you. That said, I don't see Gitlab's use of Azure as a huge issue. That doesn't give MS anywhere near the kind of control over the platform that they'll have with Github.