I understand that you're claiming gitlab is salting the earth, but still don't understand why / how.

You write:

> You can’t build a business competing with someone who is using VC money to give away their product.

This is delightfully worded, given it could apply to both github and gitlab.

Remembering that github started in 2008, while gitlab.com started four years later (first commit to their codebase was 2011).

Github is running on $350m of VC funding.

In response to my question 'can you call a 10yo company that still isn't profitable, a "business"?', you avoided the question, called the matter bizarre, and tried to distract from the question by claiming github is a _better_ business.

Your claim that github has 'built a business and .. gave back generously' is also weird in that gitlab has released the source to their core product, but github hasn't. This also speaks against your claim that you're more likely to be abandoned if you commit to gitlab than github.

Finally, the idea that the 'low end of the market' is where all the money is does not match any other tech startup's experience, is belied by the pricing structure of both companies, and further invalidated by the fact that gitlab is not swimming in cash from their cornering of the frugal user segment.