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		kgwgk on Sept 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft... Critical of open-source tools. For the benefit of the reader, they explain that GitHub and GitLab are (more or less) open-source tools.

OJFord on Sept 20, 2018 [–]

GitLab is more or less open source; GitHub isn't. (Though it is arguably an 'open source tool' - i.e. 'tool _for_ open source'...)

kgwgk on Sept 20, 2018 | [–]

That’s why I said “more or less”. And apart from being used for open-source, GitHub is obviously built upon git (which is open source).

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