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It was working when I posted it, if you click view raw file it will take you to the changelog.

First they offered a Free Enterprise tier for 10 seats, they've removed this a few months back, their OSS lacked even some basic things as language support, building it was impossible due to lack of documentation/breakage in the build process for several months and they didn't offer sourcegraph-oss images.

At some point, one individual on Github managed to get it working and his images got 10k+ pulls on DockerHub. That's hardly "nobody". Also, some people removed telemetry from OSS version so Sourcegraph didn't even know that anyone is using it.

Also, they were open-closed-open-closed in the last 5 years.

Their website is a mess, even employees on github are providing contradicting information. Original commit message that relicensed bunch of stuff had errors in it regarding what exactly will be closed source now.

Maybe you could create some short demo for people?

I've done a demo and created documentation, 80% of the developers at $MY_COMPANY used Sourcegraph Code Search at least a few times in the past month, some of them are doing a dozen searches per day.

Their main product is Code Search, Cody is a new thing.

I remember looking for Sourcegraph submissions on HN, their CEO's (sqs) first submission to HN was titled "Which Open Source License Should Your Project Use If You Want to Raise VC$?"

You could always add seat limits at lower tiers, truth is that almost no company in my region is paying for Gitlab, but there are plenty that are paying for GitHub. There's also the problem with big customers, you can see it in Gitlab's case, namely they demand a lot of stuff and they have the leverage. I worked at a company like this, we couldn't stop focusing on niche custom dev for Mr Big Buck while our core offering was neglected and we stagnated.

It's really healthy for a company to have a whole spectrum of clients, from people that chip in 2-4$ per month for a minor bump in capabilities and without any support included to big companies that push for exploring new features.

In my opinion, Gitlab is a primary example of feature-creep and it will be the demise of the company.

I've tried finding out if they still offer the free tier now that the OSS is gone, because one of their employees mentioned it on Github, but failed to find anything. I can see they have a free trial. Their own website is full of broken links and contradicting information due to the frequent licensing/product changes.

I've even found a page still mentioning the OSS version and telling you how easy it is to fire it up.

100 USD per developer per month is 1/2 of our whole infrastructure cost at my company. You could get GitHub enterprise seats for 1/4 of that. Dealing with sales, contracts and licenses also has some non-zero opportunity costs.

Or Gitlab pricing.

Why are companies isolating themselves from smaller clients?

But it will be open source this time, pinky swear

So basically their "open source" offering wasn't really open source, it wasn't even open core, as you had to build it yourself, the build wasn't working for a long time and even if you managed that, some languages were enterprise-only.

Nice. How to get free marketing by strapping Open Source to your product and writing a bunch of announcements.

That's how you build confidence in your company and executive decisions.

Let's see if we get the same amount of upvotes their post got when they open sourced the thing.

OSS version didn't have official Docker images prebuilt, you had to build them yourself and for a long time the OSS build was broken. A year or two ago they promised they'll fix it or even provide official OSS image, this didn't happen.

One person finally created a working release train on github and was releasing OSS containers, Docker Hub reports it as 10k+ pulls, which is a lot for unofficial image.

I tend to stay away from any 3rd party tool that's not really a main part of infrastructure and requires sales contacts. It's wasting my company time to deal with sales when it comes to a few licenses, just give me a number input and buy button. I also lost some confidence regarding Sourcegraph, as it seems they change their direction, pricing and rules multiple times per year

A few months back they removed free enterprise license that allowed 10 dev seats, some smaller companies were holding back the updates and looking at the OSS version - I guess, not anymore

One would expect announcement regarding license change to precede implementation of said changes :/

License was changed almost 3 weeks ago, 5.1.0 release blog post skips this information. There's still no official announcement.

It seems like the author of Sourcegraph OSS containers announced that his release train is now dead

https://github.com/jensim/sourcegraph-release-train/

I'm actually from one of the countries they are moving jobs to, it's very US-centric to see racism whenever someone uses any geographic location that's not the "rich West".

Red Hat had some pretty sizeable layoffs recently and a bulk of their recruiting efforts are in the countries with cheaper labour.

"Kinetic kill" is arguably easier to detect and harder to deny.

I haven't said that we should only focus on sea cables, I said that we should do both so that the overall reliability and resiliency increases.

You mean, the valuable support they are increasingly shifting to Colombia, Philippines and India?

Currently, you can cut internet connections to most countries with a small deep water sub. China, for example, was busy building one that can be used at 10k+ depth and has arms.

> Although the laser system was not directly tested with an orbiting satellite, they accomplished high-data transmission over a free-space distance of 53km (33 miles).

This is peanuts compared to under sea cables and issues you will find penetrating atmosphere and increasingly, space.

We should keep under sea cables and work on additional connections to make our networks more resilient, both to natural phenomena, equipment failures and sabotage.

Some people may be having the quietest on-call of their lives.

I have ADHD, frequently exhibited risky behaviour, ADHD medication (MPH) reduced this effect for me, I'm more conscious and think things through before they happen.