Imagine almost all open source projects, hipsters, students, new coders, developers/rest of the world moved to GitLab by next year. It will be like history repeating itself. Microsoft may end up writing off 7.5 billion dollars as they did it with Nokia. (1/2)
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Replying to @nixcraft
Easy to picture. The sudden massive increase in expenses with no corresponding increase in revenues would almost certainly shut GitLab down. Of course they could seek more VC funding, but that would probably require them to agree to seek a buyer.
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Replying to @syberghost
Yes, providing free service is a big issue. Maybe
@linuxfoundation,@freebsdfndation,@FSF,@Redhat, and other FOSS groups backed by Industry leaders should set up a non-profit org to host open source projects. What do you think?1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
Replying to @nixcraft @linuxfoundation and
All but one of those groups use GitHub. People are reacting to the Microsoft of the '90s, not the Microsoft of today. Here's Don Marti's take:https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-the-coding-site-GitHub-will-change-for-the-better-or-worse-now-that-Microsoft-is-acquiring-it/answer/Don-Marti?srid=53Z …
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Replying to @syberghost @linuxfoundation and
Ones trust is lost in any relationship, it is hard to regain. That applies to MS and personal life. People don't trust easily again. Same thing with Sourceforge and new owners trying hard to win back.
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Replying to @nixcraft @linuxfoundation and
GitLab is hosted on AWS. I'll trust Microsoft's commitment to Open Source before I'll trust Amazon's any day. For GitLab to grow to the size of GitHub, they'd have to pay for a LOT of hosting. GitHub is like 200 times the size of GitLab.
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Adam Rackis Retweeted Feross 🧙🏼♂️ ✨
Worth mentioning that GitLab ***already*** has the disease of VC Funding coursing through its veins. Only a matter of time before that scorpion stings.https://twitter.com/feross/status/1003799773164400640 …
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