Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by bamboozled on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:24PM (#17222680)

What makes you think the same thing won’t happen to GitLab?

No one would’ve dreamed of this happening 5-10 years back.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by indigochill on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:43AM (#17225192)

I expect it'll happen to Gitlab at some point, but the beauty of self-hosted is that I can cut ties with the organization and continue using their software anyway because it's entirely running on my machine.

Which, incidentally, is just one reason I usually strongly prefer self-hosted options over SaaS. You're not signing a pact to become beholden to the business whims of a third party.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by bamboozled on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:13AM (#17227384)

Good luck hosting an unmaintined piece of software though, there is no guarantee it will just instantly have community backing.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by sytse on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:37PM (#17223170)

GitLab took external investments will have a liquidity event at some point. That means an acquisition or an IPO. Right now we're aiming for an IPO https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#goals as we have since 2015 when we took the first external investment.

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