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Lol, if we are thinking that way, they stole their entire business idea from GitHub!!! They are upset GitHub copied a single feature! Unbelievable.
by itwy 7y ago
Lol, if we are thinking that way, they stole their entire business idea from GitHub!!! They are upset GitHub copied a single feature! Unbelievable.
- techntoke 7y agoNo they didn't. There were plenty of similar SCM's before GitHub. GitLab quickly outpaced them and added a lot of valuable unique features.
- PierceJoy 7y agoPlease. In the earlier days, Gitlab was shameless about copying things from GitHub. At one point, they even styled their website to be almost indistinguishable from the GitHub Enterprise site. If I recall correctly, there may have even been some copying of HTML/CSS from the GitHub Enterprise site. The reason those things were never widely known is because GitHub never made whiny passive aggressive blogs posts about it. That's one thing Gitlab should have copied from GitHub.
- techntoke 7y agoI think you're thinking of Gogs or Gitea. GitHub should have been building a self-hosted open source version and CI platform. Now they're well in the dust and still don't have an open source version.
- PierceJoy 7y agoI'm not. I'm thinking about Gitlab. There is a long history of Gitlab shamelessly copying things from GitHub, and GitHub taking the high road. I would be so much more likely to support them if they didn't act like complete tools any time GitHub releases a new feature, especially considering their history. > Now they're well in the dust and still don't have an open source version. GitHub is massively larger than Gitlab. It's not even close. You're focussing on one relatively unimportant thing, and missing the bigger picture. I would wager a year from now, GitHub's lead in the market will have increased, not decreased.
- techntoke 7y agoWhat would you like to wager? I'll wager GitLab will be even further integrated into Kubernetes and the go to for open source CI/CD.
- PierceJoy 7y agoWhy are you so hyper focused on products being open source? With a very very small number of exceptions, this has never mattered, and likely will never matter. I wager GitHub will be a significantly larger company, with more users both free and paid, hosting a significantly larger portion of notable open source projects.
- techntoke 7y agoBecause I care about innovation for distribution of social benefits and environmental improvement, as opposed to profit.
- PierceJoy 7y agoAnd I can understand why you like Gitlab the open source project. However, we're talking about Gitlab the for profit company. My criticisms apply only to the company, not the project.
- taspeotis 7y agoI think the design was Inspinia [1] which can be licensed for commercial use. [1] https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/inspinia-responsive-admin-theme-WB0R5L90S https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/inspinia-responsive-admin-th...
- PierceJoy 7y agoNot following here. GitHub looks nothing like that. There was a point in time where Gitlab made changes to their homepage to look exactly like the GitHub Enterprise marketing page.