> That would be a major reason to abandon the Gitlab ship.
Why?
Gitlab is actually open source. Although we actually pay money to Gitlab for support since it's so cheap. We run our own instances and would be fine even if a FAANG bought it and killed it.
The ability to self-host is actually one of the differences between Gitlab and Github.
Well we do as well but it's tied to a license key that enables specific extra freatures, so if they kill and can't renew it, we would be screwed unless they released a special change or key to disable it (barring someone else figuring out how to remove the key validation, likely against ToS)
Why?
Gitlab is actually open source. Although we actually pay money to Gitlab for support since it's so cheap. We run our own instances and would be fine even if a FAANG bought it and killed it.
The ability to self-host is actually one of the differences between Gitlab and Github.