The marketing department of Gitlab seems especially active on HN lately. Why is this article being revived? This was already talked about two years ago.
You know what is also open source? Git. I am not sure what the value is for having an open source clone of Github. Repositories can be changed in seconds thanks to git. So unless people are actually afraid of Microsoft reading private repos and can’t afford Github Enterprise, than I fail to understand why it matters that Gitlab is “open core.” Site reliability is far more important. I have never cared to look at Github source code. What for? It’s a utility for me like Dropbox or iCloud. GitHub and Github Enterprise have always worked great for me; as long as that continues to happen, why would someone like me care about Gitlab? Can anyone provide a specific benefit of Gitlab over Github? At the end of the day, what’s the value proposition?
I agree it isn't the best article to revive when there are fresh articles on the major news. But I don't think it's "the marketing department of Gitlab". It's just that a bunch of users want to talk about Gitlab and open-source generally in the context of the news. Same reason https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223116 was a huge thread yesterday.
You know what is also open source? Git. I am not sure what the value is for having an open source clone of Github. Repositories can be changed in seconds thanks to git. So unless people are actually afraid of Microsoft reading private repos and can’t afford Github Enterprise, than I fail to understand why it matters that Gitlab is “open core.” Site reliability is far more important. I have never cared to look at Github source code. What for? It’s a utility for me like Dropbox or iCloud. GitHub and Github Enterprise have always worked great for me; as long as that continues to happen, why would someone like me care about Gitlab? Can anyone provide a specific benefit of Gitlab over Github? At the end of the day, what’s the value proposition?