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Regardless of reasons ( I'm sure there are some good ones ), this was a "small" mistake that reveals a lot. I don't know if the people running Gitlab are dev/o
by PedroBatista 4y ago
Regardless of reasons ( I'm sure there are some good ones ), this was a "small" mistake that reveals a lot.
I don't know if the people running Gitlab are dev/ops guys who found themselves running the ship or some high pedigree managers but this reveals an enormous blind spot on this group of people.
One of the major driving forces for humans is loss aversion. Doesn't matter the project is abandoned or some garbage you don't value, these guys are on the business of banking for code + services and they just announced to the world they can't be trusted as bankers.
I'm sure that wasn't what they were looking for and their monthly bill is big ( perhaps too big ), but setting fire to the whole thing isn't the right move.
- Accujack 4y ago>I'm sure that wasn't what they were looking for and their monthly bill is big ( perhaps too big ), but setting fire to the whole thing isn't the right move. It's owned by Microsoft, a for-profit company with a long history of hostility toward open source anything. Literally setting fire to the building and servers IS the right move if it's what brings the most money in the door and keeps as little as possible from going out. They don't and never will care about customer goodwill for something like their paid service, they'd stop offering it tomorrow if it made money for them.