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Re:GitLab Web IDE by pjmlp on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:02PM (#17324009)
Companies want to force us back to the days of time-sharing taking the power out of our computers, placing the gems of our work gated into their systems.
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Re:GitLab Web IDE by hestefisk on Friday June 15, 2018 @08:56PM (#17325088)
Why? It’s still on top of Git so it is fully decentralised. Having options isn’t evil in itself.
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Re:GitLab Web IDE by IncRnd on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:47PM (#17325522)
No. They don't want to take power away from you. They want more people to use their platforms. That could mean selling enterprise cloud access, selling chromebooks, selling on-prem solutions, or selling more copies of sublime text.
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Re:GitLab Web IDE by pjmlp on Saturday June 16, 2018 @02:15AM (#17326165)
How is using their platform instead of my own computer not taking power away from me?

If I don't want to keep using Sublime Text, I just do Windows key + R something else.

Moving away from time-sharing platforms is a complete different story.

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