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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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