Github should see them as competitors, because Gitlab has definitely taken business from them. Back in 2014 I started at a company that was still using a hand-

Github should see them as competitors, because Gitlab has definitely taken business from them. Back in 2014 I started at a company that was still using a hand-rolled git server. They tried out Github enterprise but were unsatisfied with GH's lack of LDAP integration, so they were going to continue to frankenstein their in-house git server. I pitched them Gitlab instead, which did pretty much everything GH enterprise was doing, plus LDAP integration, plus was a fraction of the price. They were sold, I migrated the company to Gitlab, and continued to be impressed as Gitlab ran laps around Github on features.