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I pay for GitHub and can't deny their positive role in OSS, but I also use GitLab and will happily continue (and love that they have an OSS edition). I don't think it's a binary choice. Personally I will often adopt multiple pieces of software with redundant features because nuance often dictates the right tool for the job, and I enjoy being prepared for that.

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Absolutely, but the parent was saying GitLab changed OSS, and though that may be true to some extent, it is a pittance compared to the imapct GitHub has made.

git itself is the real force behind the OSS impact. Github model while successful was merely replacing sourceforge and google code. People always had ways to host and share open source projects.

Github enables centralization of code which is not really inline with philosophy of git being fully distributed . Gitlab with its OSS model and the ability to host your own git service makes is bit closer to that vision than Github is.

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