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Re:Death of an open-source business model by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:28PM (#25363254)
> believe that risk is reduced because we're application software instead of infrastructure software.

Why do you believe this? My project uses self-hosted gitlab (ancient version) and I frankly have a very hard time seeing it as anything other than infrastructure. Maybe we just don't push our use of gitlab a lot (to be fair, we don't push it at all).

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Re:Death of an open-source business model by ignoramous on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:46PM (#25363574)
> Why do you believe this?

GitLab's co-founder and CEO goes into the details in this talk: https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/commercial-open-sourc...

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Re:Death of an open-source business model by john_cogs on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:04PM (#25363911)
The link I shared in my last comment goes into detail on how we view the differences between application vs infrastructure.

To your point on your usage - it's certainly possible that folks use GitLab in different ways and that our thesis does not apply to each use case.

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