Is Github actually hurting for money? It has to be sitting athwart one of the most reliable rivers of gold amongst the independents.
And if so, then were open source to move toward GitLab with their even more permissive policies, how could they avoid the same fate?
It's more about having too many people working on non-core products that don't deliver value. Gitlab seems to be doing fine and has built a full-featured CI system in the same time Github has only managed to add a basic project board and include commit messages in search.