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IPO and quarterly demand for profit. Gitlab was generous first, to rise as a valid alternative to GitHub. They never got the comminity aspect right, perhaps ai
by hirako2000 9mo ago
IPO and quarterly demand for profit.
Gitlab was generous first, to rise as a valid alternative to GitHub. They never got the comminity aspect right, perhaps aiming for profitability with a focus on the runners instances which is how they make money.
With profitability, the IPO made sense.
GitHub probably had a different strategy..keep it generous, get the entire open source community, keep raising money and one day someone will buys us out for billions. We we are, Microsoft goal is to capture the community, it works. It's sticky.
- direwolf20 9mo agoCodeberg is a nonprofit community project aiming to replicate that. You can use it today.
- hirako2000 9mo agoI've used it, it's great, more like what GitHub was meant to be. There is Forgejo. I find it more stable, I self host that. It never suffered an outage in 2 years that I had it running and is faster than GitHub.
- direwolf20 9mo agoCodeberg is a public instance of the Forgejo software, which you can also host yourself.