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Re:GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open ... by trendia on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:25PM (#17241682)
I understand the value of guerrilla marketing, but at the same time it makes them seem less credible.

Imagine if they offered a 75% discount for defending them or praising them on Hacker News! That would make any comment in support of GitLab suspect.

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Re:GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open ... by sytse on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:14PM (#17242544)
I think many of the #movingtogitlab tweets were sent before we even offered a discount.
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Re:GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open ... by ksec on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:54PM (#17249388)
They said more then 1000 were tweeted before they make the blog post. Now they have 2000 tweets.

I bet most of those newer 1000 #movingtogitlab has absolutely nothing to do with the discount.

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Re:GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open ... by behringer on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:00PM (#17244045)
Yeah but this type of advertising is really common on Twitter and not on HN.
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