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The difference being that the value Microsoft gets from GitHub isn't its revenue, it's its influence. Whereas Gitlab is just another corporate software suite.
by Bayart 4y ago
The difference being that the value Microsoft gets from GitHub isn't its revenue, it's its influence. Whereas Gitlab is just another corporate software suite.
- ollien 4y agoI don't have the diffs in front of me, but I'm fairly sure this predates the MS acquisition by quite a while.
- xtracto 4y agoPrior to MS acquisition, Github free offering was really bad: No private repos, no CI pipeline and I think there was not real "team".
- tonmoy 4y agoDo you have a source for this? I vaguely remember GitHub starting to offer private repos when GitLab started getting popular.
- ollien 4y agoGithub raised the 5 repo limit to infinite in 2016 https://github.blog/2016-05-11-introducing-unlimited-private-repositories/ https://github.blog/2016-05-11-introducing-unlimited-private... And made private repos free after the acquisition https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/ https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/
- ollien 4y agoWell, Github (free or not) had no CI until Github Actions, which was after the acquisition. Integration with things like Travis were already there and free.
- wink 4y agoThat's a weird definition of bad. It was free and it worked as advertised without providing every imaginable feature.
- password4321 4y ago> the value Microsoft gets from GitHub [is] influence Don't forget easy access to all the code to train Copilot, the AI code launderer. With my tinfoil hat on: even the private repo edition!