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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jpalomaki on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:50PM (#17222452)
One could argue that both Atlassian and Github were to some extent successful, because they kept the open source competitors away by giving out free licenses to open source projects.

With these free options available, people in community were less interested in putting effort to free (as in speech) alternatives for these closed source products.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jononor on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:13PM (#17222602)
Yes this is likely. However we can have our cake and eat it too, companies can host an instance of an open source service. Like Gitlab does

EDIT, yes I am aware that there are some non open parts in Gitlab.com

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by exikyut on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:01AM (#17225527)
What parts of gitlab.com are non-open?
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by OJFord on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:40AM (#17225721)
They refer to it at as 'open-core':

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-gith...

I thought this was interesting to re-read in light of this news, so I've resubmitted it for discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225725

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by exikyut on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:51AM (#17227212)
Good call :) it just went from #13 to #12 on the front page.
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