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Gitlab is a good solution for most folks. They have a for profit business powered by open source software.

GH also had a for-profit business. Apparently the profits weren't enough, but they were profitable and bootstrapped in their early days

It says in the article:

GitHub, which has been trying for nine months to find a new CEO and has yet to make a profit from its popular service that allows coders to share and collaborate on their work.

From 2010: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...

At some point the situation clearly flipped

And why exactly do you think that GitLab is any more profitable than Github?

I never said it was. I am just pointing out that the article says Github hasn't even turned a profit yet while the OP said they were profitable.

Fair enough. The parent said "early days", though. It's fairly common for reporters to get this stuff wrong.

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