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That would be a major reason to abandon the Gitlab ship. Google is notorious for killing off projects. Also, Google had a Gitlab/Github-style page until a few

That would be a major reason to abandon the Gitlab ship. Google is notorious for killing off projects. Also, Google had a Gitlab/Github-style page until a few years ago, called Google Code. Obviously, they weren't interested on that venue anymore.

mschuster91 7y ago
> Obviously, they weren't interested on that venue anymore. Because Github and Gitlab was eating up the userbase left and right. The utter lack of any progress/development on Google Code itself was the nail in the coffin driving people away.
gbersac 7y ago
Google only kills unsuccessful projects. Gitlab is an obvious successful project.
- dgellow 7y ago
  Google Reader was clearly successful.
  - shawabawa3 7y ago
    Was it? I've never met or heard of anyone using it except on Hacker News I also doubt it made any revenue
  - manigandham 7y ago
    It absolutely wasn't. It was completely insignificant in all respects to a company of that size. It also has had better alternatives within months of its demise to the point that it's rather surprising people are still missing it.
- aquaticsunset 7y ago
  Commercially unsuccessful projects* There’s a big difference to Google execs between technological and commercial success. It must be very, very interesting to be a fly on the wall of their high level product management meetings.
bsder 7y ago
> That would be a major reason to abandon the Gitlab ship. Why? Gitlab is actually open source. Although we actually pay money to Gitlab for support since it's so cheap. We run our own instances and would be fine even if a FAANG bought it and killed it. The ability to self-host is actually one of the differences between Gitlab and Github.
- Chico75 7y ago
  Well we do as well but it's tied to a license key that enables specific extra freatures, so if they kill and can't renew it, we would be screwed unless they released a special change or key to disable it (barring someone else figuring out how to remove the key validation, likely against ToS)
Crinus 7y ago
Microsoft also had CodePlex yet they acquired GitHub.

mschuster91 7y ago

> Obviously, they weren't interested on that venue anymore. Because Github and Gitlab was eating up the userbase left and right. The utter lack of any progress/development on Google Code itself was the nail in the coffin driving people away.

gbersac 7y ago

Google only kills unsuccessful projects. Gitlab is an obvious successful project.

dgellow 7y ago
Google Reader was clearly successful.
- shawabawa3 7y ago
  Was it? I've never met or heard of anyone using it except on Hacker News I also doubt it made any revenue
- manigandham 7y ago
  It absolutely wasn't. It was completely insignificant in all respects to a company of that size. It also has had better alternatives within months of its demise to the point that it's rather surprising people are still missing it.
aquaticsunset 7y ago
Commercially unsuccessful projects* There’s a big difference to Google execs between technological and commercial success. It must be very, very interesting to be a fly on the wall of their high level product management meetings.

bsder 7y ago

> That would be a major reason to abandon the Gitlab ship. Why? Gitlab is actually open source. Although we actually pay money to Gitlab for support since it's so cheap. We run our own instances and would be fine even if a FAANG bought it and killed it. The ability to self-host is actually one of the differences between Gitlab and Github.

Chico75 7y ago
Well we do as well but it's tied to a license key that enables specific extra freatures, so if they kill and can't renew it, we would be screwed unless they released a special change or key to disable it (barring someone else figuring out how to remove the key validation, likely against ToS)

Crinus 7y ago

Microsoft also had CodePlex yet they acquired GitHub.