Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP

Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by stevefan1999 on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:00AM (#19817238)

Unpopular opinion: The third reason why GitLab decided on the Google Cloud Platform: political correctness, not only that GitLab doesn't want to nurture their enemy GitHub, which in turns is acquired by Microsoft causing a political exodus, and GitLab also fears the ties with Azure will make people give up to BitBucket or such again. Therefore it’s a pretty good PR stunt pulled to polarize the situation.

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Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by emilycook on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:06PM (#19820175)

Hi, employee from GitLab here. The move to GCP was planned before the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub was announced: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/commit/ab5bf6b03ffc0...

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Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by netheril96 on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:18AM (#19817700)

Is this really what “political correctness” means?

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Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by stevefan1999 on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:54AM (#19817941)

Well, despite that, sadly consider the fact that it is "politically correct" to critique Microsoft as "M$", "FUD machine", "evil corp" and "attempted murderer of free software" in the tech world even to this date.

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Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP by throw0824 on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:59AM (#19818473)

Aren't the second and fourth just terms they themselves used to describe themselves/ their goals?

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