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What's the point of moving from one proprietary service to another? One day GetLab will get acquired by another tech giant, or will stay the same - it doesn't m

What's the point of moving from one proprietary service to another? One day GetLab will get acquired by another tech giant, or will stay the same - it doesn't matter too much, because it's already owned by private company and venture capitalists. They do what they want, and they definitely won't turn down million-dollar acquisition offer.

bbody 8y ago
I thought Phabricator was open source?
- penagwin 8y ago
  Same with gitlab? (They're self hosting an instance)
  - vignesh_m 8y ago
    there are some features in pro version, but yeah its mostly open source
    - zuron7 8y ago
      Afaik, The Pro version is open source as well, it's just not usable without a key.
      - jimktrains2 8y ago
        That's not really possible, and I'm not sure what you mean.
        mikewhy 8y ago
        They may be referring to this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
        gyaru 8y ago
        Why wouldn't it be? It's open source but not free software.
        jamietanna 8y ago
        A better distinction here in naming would be to call GitLab EE "Source Available" rather than "Open Source"
gpm 8y ago
GitLab (the product) is, for the most part, not proprietary?
btasovac 8y ago
GitLab is an open core company [1], meaning that we ship GitLab CE which is open source and GitLab EE that is closed source. We try to be a good steward of the open source project. GitLab EE is proprietary, closed source code but we try to work in a way similar to GitLab CE: the issue tracker is publicly viewable and the EE license allows modifications. In conclusion (TLDR), GitLab has an open core business model and ships both open and closed source software. [1] - 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...