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True. But EE, the product they are making money from, is not free, and not open source. Thus GitLab is not "Open Source company", as stated by arnieswap at the
by lightgreen 7y ago
True.
But EE, the product they are making money from, is not free, and not open source. Thus GitLab is not "Open Source company", as stated by arnieswap at the beginning of this thread.
- techntoke 7y agoYes they are. Most of everything they do as a company is public and done on GitLab, including their docs, meetings and more. They are like 100x more open source than GitHub and I've seen GitHub trying to advertise as the company of open source.
- bdcravens 7y ago> They are like 100x more open source than GitHub I don't think this is a fair (or accurate) quantification. While Gitlab's principal product probably has more open sourced code, Github makes tremendous contributions to open source. Atom is open source. They contribute significantly to projects like Rails (for example, the multiple database feature was extracted from their codebase). This doesn't even begin to address the dependency upon Github the entire open source ecosystem has. How many millions of dollars do they spend in infrastructure every month just to keep projects like RubyGems and npm viable? I think Gitlab is a spectacular offering, and having a single source for your entire dev-ops story is extremely compelling. However, spinning a narrative that Gitlab is more open source than Github is extremely disingenuous.