• lysdexic@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    There would be no other incentive for companies to buy it.

    A company might want to extend it’s service offering with a build pipeline/CICD system, and buying GitLab would get them the best-in-class service.

    Microsoft bought GitHub for much of the same reasons, and GitHub didn’t went to hell after the acquisition.