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Re:Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces by IshKebab on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:02PM (#28409374)
Is it though? This totally sounds like "yeay... we love that you've ruined our business model, it's greeaaat!"

Though I get that you can't really say that you're gutted. And at least they aren't giving Codespaces away for free, so you can at least compete.

And I guess companies like Shazam and TomTom still exist, despite Google making way better free versions of their products.

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Re:Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces by cube2222 on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:13PM (#28410006)
Not affiliated with anything of this at all, but this can totally be a good thing for them.

GitHub entering this space gives them additional validation of the existence of a market for this kind of product and gives a lot of additional exposure to the product idea as a whole.

Even if they will now get a smaller percentage of developers using this kind of tool, the rise in the total number of developers using such tools will most probably make up for it.

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