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I'd like to point out that GitLab is not independent. They are owned by investors, including Google Ventures. So anyone who thinks they're giving GitHub/MS the finger by migrating their repos, please be ready to move everything again when GitLab disappoints you.

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GitLab engineer here: our CEO has responded to exactly that concern in https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003415290368028672 and https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003337681668005888. To quote:

> We'll have a liquidity event. We're aiming for an IPO https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#goals but we can't rule out an acquisition.

And it's worth pointing out that you can run GitLab on your own server, so even if GitLab.com ever ends up disappointing you, you don't need to go through the trouble of migrating to the next best thing.

Or then I could just host it myself using their open tech and everything would be fine again. :)

Google has done a lot of shit before, but I sure as hell trust them more than Microsoft at the moment when it comes to acquisitions.

Care to explain what? Satya Microsoft is day/night different between Ballmer MIcrosoft.

Meanwhile Sundar Pichai Google hasn’t been the friendliest.

What about Windows 10?

I think what happened to Skype is a case in point. It doesn't matter who's running Microsoft, after that disaster I don't think anyone's going to be trusting them.

Windows is still doing a lot of bullshit with ads in the start menu and forced updates. A bunch of their open source stuff which has included spyware has been less than upfront about including spyware.

Skype has basically become unusable for professional communication. It’s getting worse with every update. I kind of expect the same for Github then. That’s my concern.

This. Thank you for pointing this out. Also I have a hard time trusting the "community + proprietary" model...

They are actually advertising google cloud platform in self-hosted versions now:

https://i.imgur.com/OgrNMxn.png

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