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I don't like the idea of a free as in beer software. GitHub is Great but Gitlab seems like a cheap clone, so targeting People that want to pay less or nothing.
by fibo 11y ago
I don't like the idea of a free as in beer software. GitHub is Great but Gitlab seems like a cheap clone, so targeting People that want to pay less or nothing. I don't think it is ethic to clone ideas, to build a better world we nerd new ideas.
- ikawe 11y agoI think building up a libre platform, even if the basic patterns have been established, paves the way for innovation. Imagine if people could just "add features" to Github. To put it another way, GNU and Linux were just a "cheap clone" of UNIX, but became a great platform for innovation.
- mikekchar 11y agoOne interesting thing about GNU is that originally developers were encouraged to implement work a-like solutions, but with completely different internals. This resulted in a large number of improvements over the standard Unix tools (a great example being bison vs yacc). I'll probably get some push back from the BSD folks, but back in the old days it was pretty common to install GNU (without the kernel) on every new Unix box you got because the GNU utilities were considered to be better (possibly some of them have gotten a bit bloated... bash... ;-) ).