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I can't believe the number of entitled posts here. Do people here think that Gitlab SaaS doesn't have an operation cost (in servers, development, support, etc)?

I can't believe the number of entitled posts here. Do people here think that Gitlab SaaS doesn't have an operation cost (in servers, development, support, etc)? Perhaps people need to start re-evaluating what "free" means in the context of a cloud offering. "Free" is a marketing strategy, not a charitable act. In the case of Gitlab there's nothing preventing you from using the self-managed free tier which will effectively remove this limit, but guess what? Running it on your own will also have a cost for you. The same way it does for Gitlab when they give it for free through Gitlab.com

PaywallBuster 5y ago
Not entitlement Gitlab used to have a basic free tier and a 5$ tier which was accessible Since they will heavily restrict the free tier, and the 5$ plan was moved to 20$, many organizations have a serious financial decision to make and all the fans of Gitlab, myself included, will have to consider options and the other problem is pricing/per seat billing, is difficult for everyone, of course. But surely there's plenty of organizations which are probably a lot cheaper for Gitlab to keep as users than others depending on feature usage.
benatkin 5y ago
I read every single top-level comment, and not a single one seems "entitled" to me.
Dayshine 5y ago
I used to run Jira Server myself for a hobby project, I paid $10 for the 10 user version. I guess I might have been able to stretch to $50 out of my personal funds. Guess what? They dropped support and the suggested replacement product costs thousands per year. Am I entitled in that case too? Small non-commercial projects get stepped on all the time despite contributing most of the important software in the world. GitLab recently upped their pricing from $5/m to $20/m as well, so even paying members got a huge price increase.

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I can't believe the number of entitled posts here. Do people here think that Gitlab SaaS doesn't have an operation cost (in servers, development, support, etc)?

by whoisjuan 5y ago

PaywallBuster 5y ago
Not entitlement Gitlab used to have a basic free tier and a 5$ tier which was accessible Since they will heavily restrict the free tier, and the 5$ plan was moved to 20$, many organizations have a serious financial decision to make and all the fans of Gitlab, myself included, will have to consider options and the other problem is pricing/per seat billing, is difficult for everyone, of course. But surely there's plenty of organizations which are probably a lot cheaper for Gitlab to keep as users than others depending on feature usage.
benatkin 5y ago
I read every single top-level comment, and not a single one seems "entitled" to me.
Dayshine 5y ago
I used to run Jira Server myself for a hobby project, I paid $10 for the 10 user version. I guess I might have been able to stretch to $50 out of my personal funds. Guess what? They dropped support and the suggested replacement product costs thousands per year. Am I entitled in that case too? Small non-commercial projects get stepped on all the time despite contributing most of the important software in the world. GitLab recently upped their pricing from $5/m to $20/m as well, so even paying members got a huge price increase.