GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 07:53:13 UTC, drug wrote:
> 04.06.2018 09:02, Anton Fediushin пишет:
>> On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 04:40:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On the bright side, maybe this will encourage online repo 
>>> hosting to become less of a monopoly as folks move elsewhere 
>>> due to their concerns about Microsoft.
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>> 
>> Can't agree more: GitLab and Bitbucket deserve more attention.
>> 
>> Speaking of which, there's huge spike [1] in project imports 
>> on GitLab. These are some great news for it, I hope it doesn't 
>> crash.
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer?orgId=1
>
> Gitlab has a big (for me) advantage being self hosted 
> standalone system I can use privately. Its free version has 
> restrictions comparing to enterprise version but very usable.
> What about sexy modern design it's annoying (for me again) that 
> this design changes frequently, it forces me almost every 
> update to find where menus and buttons I used before placed now.

No more restrictions for using GitLab for open source projects 
[1], both SaaS and Self-Hosted.

It's really a big opportunity...

[1] 
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/05/gitlab-ultimate-and-gold-free-for-education-and-open-source/

/Paolo