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I think there's a good bit of simple butthurt behind it as well, seeing as Microsoft owns their biggest (and far larger) competitor.
by jaywalk 4y ago
I think there's a good bit of simple butthurt behind it as well, seeing as Microsoft owns their biggest (and far larger) competitor.
- mc32 4y agoThis is probably key. They probably will be avoiding O365 in favor of the other dominant office SaaS solution.
- sneak 4y agoI mean, Windows has a ton of telemetry and spyware in it. It does not make any sense at all to run spyware from your largest competitor inside your competing business. That's nothing to do with "butthurt".
- lbotos 4y agoHeh. So, no, it was always a Mac/Linux place and around 2019 is when the team grew large enough that some new hires asked if they could get a Windows machine. That's when it was written down: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/3a47ffa6c1d2dba2a8918e806892a0dfe113a418 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/3a47ff... This was after the GitHub acquisition but I know for a fact there was one engineer who really wanted a Windows machine but IT was not interested in adding it to the fleet as we were already heavily Mac/Linux. (Source: I work there.)
- Gigachad 4y agoI remember seeing this policy in place before GitHub was acquired.