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Re:Announcing new tools, forums, and features by irq11 on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:38AM (#12504600)
so basically, you like it because it's free.

doesn't speak well for their business prospects.

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Re:Announcing new tools, forums, and features by FireBeyond on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:55PM (#12509739)
Actually, we pay for GitLab EE.

GitLab's pricing model won a lot of people when GitHub's was ugly for anyone who wanted private repos (single guy at home with 10+ private repos for things like your dot files, etc? $20+ a month, for what likely amounted to under 1MB of disk space).

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Re:Announcing new tools, forums, and features by irq11 on Sunday September 18, 2016 @01:25AM (#12524044)
Ok, so change "free" to "cheaper", and the point remains: you like it because they charge less.

Still, most people in HN threads use it because it's free. Which is great for an open source tool, but bad for an unprofitable, VC-funded startup.

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