Comment by bamboozled
8 years ago
What makes you think the same thing won’t happen to GitLab?
No one would’ve dreamed of this happening 5-10 years back.
8 years ago
What makes you think the same thing won’t happen to GitLab?
No one would’ve dreamed of this happening 5-10 years back.
I expect it'll happen to Gitlab at some point, but the beauty of self-hosted is that I can cut ties with the organization and continue using their software anyway because it's entirely running on my machine.
Which, incidentally, is just one reason I usually strongly prefer self-hosted options over SaaS. You're not signing a pact to become beholden to the business whims of a third party.
Good luck hosting an unmaintined piece of software though, there is no guarantee it will just instantly have community backing.
GitLab took external investments will have a liquidity event at some point. That means an acquisition or an IPO. Right now we're aiming for an IPO https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#goals as we have since 2015 when we took the first external investment.