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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by lmm on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:22AM (#28874905)
Like any big company, they have no ideology beyond making money. That actually makes it easy to trust them in a certain sense: they're not going to do things that don't benefit them, but they're not going to do something utterly crazy the way ideology-driven organizations can.

I agree that the main reason they're doing good things for developers is to get developers on board. But that doesn't negate that they're doing good things for developers.

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by JoelMcCracken on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:03PM (#28883649)
But that's the whole problem with "trusting" microsoft. Their stated motto used to be "embrace, extend, extinguish". How do we know that has seriously changed on all levels?

I do not believe that Microsoft is fundamentally on board with the open source model. Its an alliance of convenience. If suddenly they think they can make more money some other way, they'll do that. They might not even actually destroy anything explicitly, merely ruin things out of indifference.

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by GoblinSlayer on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:33AM (#28875626)
It's just business, nothing personal, no trust involved.
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