Yeah, the excellent open core is the #1 reason I evangelize for Gitlab to colleagues as well. It's a guarantee that even if Gitlab turns fully user-hostile tomo

Yeah, the excellent open core is the #1 reason I evangelize for Gitlab to colleagues as well. It's a guarantee that even if Gitlab turns fully user-hostile tomorrow (which I do not expect at all, but just saying, worst case), we can carry on unaffected on the self-hosted open core, which will doubtless be carried on by someone else in that eventuality. Plus, the scope of its features is incredible. My team uses the community edition and our peer teams use a different stack of three different licensed proprietary vendors just to do the same thing we're able to do on the open core. I had a funny conversation the other day where someone from those teams was looking at buying a license for a new package management system. When I pointed out Gitlab could do what he needed, he said, "Yeah, but we already have these other two vendors for source control and CI". To which I thought, "Sure, so you could drop both of them, too." But I can appreciate once a team's built momentum on one stack, interrupting that is probably usually more trouble than it's worth.