This may be a silly question. How did Github manage to burn 66M a year while Gitlab manage to be open source, offer an Free GitLab.com Hosting and continue a Rapid pace of improvement in multiple domain?
The gitlab came on the scene, shipped a Github replacement and then some. Is shipping features in 6 months faster than Github did over the past few years.
Github have woken up though and started shipping features again.
It's good to have competition. At least, for consumers.