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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by objclxt on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:43AM (#17224971)
> With the resources of Microsoft it will not surprise me to see a much more open and capable GitHub.

Devil's advocate: why would Microsoft invest in improving, say, the issues functionality of GitHub when it could instead integrate and push users towards its existing products and tools for project management, like SharePoint?

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by giancarlostoro on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:00AM (#17225518)
Because they develop some of their core open source products right on top of GitHub. Visual Studio Code, .NET Core (and dozens of core libraries for .NET / .NET Core) as well as the less popular things they work on in the open.

See their GitHub for more:

https://github.com/Microsoft

Also their focus is now on developers. They made VS Code completely free, MIT Licensed and not for themselves, but for developers.

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by matzy on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:13PM (#17230462)
Yes, beacuse they we're losing out as web development exploded, and realized no one wanted to pay for an editor when there we so many great free alternatives. They did it out of necessity, not out of innovation. Just like everything they do when it comes to their "open source movement"
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