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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by overcast on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:30PM (#17259959)
I'd consider Gnome a pretty serious product.

https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/05/gnome-moves-to-gitlab-2/

ok. so they weren't on github. GOSH!

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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by glandium on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:34PM (#17260010)
Gnome didn't move to gitlab because Microsoft is buying it. They weren't even on github. IIRC, they were self-hosting. And they still are.
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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by gowld on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:41PM (#17260056)
FYI, Nat Friedman, co-founder of GNOME, is now the Microsoft employee who is the CEO of GitHub.
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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by spondyl on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:06PM (#17260271)
Well, not quite. Nat cofounded a company (Helix Code, later Ximian) with Miguel de Icaza (cofounder) which then developed GNOME apps and infra.[0]

Nat was a cofounder in the same way that Jeb Bush was a US president. Connected to one perhaps but not one himself.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#History

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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by pera on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:59PM (#17260212)
I believe you are mistaking Miguel de Icaza with Nat Friedman (probably because of Ximian).
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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by vkbandi on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:02AM (#17264214)
Isn't Miguel de Icaza also with Microsoft now ?
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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by Fnoord on Saturday June 09, 2018 @06:01AM (#17272289)
Yes.
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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by walki on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:35PM (#17260016)
Gnome has never been hosted on GitHub!
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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by sdesol on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:58PM (#17261965)
They aren't hosting on gitlab.com and github.com because both are not open source. Gitlab.com is open core which us why they host on their own gitlab ce version.
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