I remember in 2014, a coworker of mine talked me into creating a Gitlab account, claiming "it's basically just Github, but you get free private repos". I liked

I remember in 2014, a coworker of mine talked me into creating a Gitlab account, claiming "it's basically just Github, but you get free private repos". I liked it, used it occasionally, but didn't care much about it until Github was purchased by Microsoft. I didn't have a problem with Microsoft buying Github per say, but it made me realize that Github could be bought, and it wasn't some kind of glorified charity. I don't think MS has done a bad job with Github at all, but the very fact that the biggest home of open source itself isn't open source made me uneasy. On the day the MS buyout was announced, I moved all my Github repos to Gitlab. Gitlab, while still a for-profit company, at least believed in open source enough to release the source code for their core product into the wild, and have proven that they can be successful doing it. I'm extremely happy that they've managed to create a pretty outstanding project that I am happy to use, and I just bought three shares to prove my dedication to it.