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		spacechild1 on Oct 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab The important difference is that GitLab is open source! That's a bit like critizing LibreOffice for "copying" MS Office and using the word "Office" in its name.

dnsmichi on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

Hi, Developer Evangelist at GitLab here.

GitLab Core is open source which is the base for the Community Edition. The paid tiers are based on Core and add Enterprise licensed proprietary code, following our open core business model.

More about our Open Source stewardship: https://about.gitlab.com/company/stewardship/

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