> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog.
and self-hosting :-)
and self-hosting :-)
Price is a feature.
But the answer of self-hosting is a perfectly valid answer for "Why the love for GitLab?" when one = $0 in licensing, and the other = > $2,500/year in licensing.
That is literally what the comment I replied to said. That "self hosting" was a reason to root for gitlab.
Similar to the "you can't use price to differentiate the two" - why not?
doesn't speak well for their business prospects.
GitLab's pricing model won a lot of people when GitHub's was ugly for anyone who wanted private repos (single guy at home with 10+ private repos for things like your dot files, etc? $20+ a month, for what likely amounted to under 1MB of disk space).
Still, most people in HN threads use it because it's free. Which is great for an open source tool, but bad for an unprofitable, VC-funded startup.