GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)

Re:GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016) by tgtweak on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:31AM (#17226759)

For a company whose existence is largely due to selling software licenses, is this surprising?

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a larger open sourcing effort at Microsoft in the coming months/years. Let's hope they do it better than Oracle.

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Re:GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016) by oblio on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:47AM (#17227185)

If .NET, Powershell, VS Code are any indicators, they're getting really, really good at Open Source stuff. They run a really tight ship and all it takes is to point it in the right direction. Just look at this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/50477

It's basically their May 2017 release plan for VS Code 1.24. Fully public.

My guess is that they're preparing some major announcements, I think at some point Windows will be Open Sourced and the consumer editions will be free. Basically we'll all be beta testers for the Pro and Enterprise editions. Which is not half bad, if they ramp up QA a bit.

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