I hate when companies steal from competitors. There are many examples to that unfortunately. Sometimes the copycat is thought to be the original because it meets a bigger audience sooner, or provides same services cheaper[0].
I respect the open source culture at GitLab. I like how transparent they are, how they handle issues together with the community. But, this is a feature that is very generic. You can't blame a phone company to put a camera to their phone because company-x had it before.
> It'd probably have been better handled more subtly.
I don't think they should've handled it at all, because of their past. Today's GitLab is very different than when it was first launched as an open source project - while the logo was more like a cat[1][2]. But being passive aggressive to GitHub, the company that they think that is stealing their ideas, while still having parts that are remnants of a copy/paste job from that same GitHub, I don't know. This shouldn't mean that GitHub or anyone can steal freely GitLab's ideas. It's hard to find a solution as to how one can fix such past mistakes, but maybe an acknowledgement/owning before going defense mode help.
> If I host critical code somewhere, it has to be available…
+1, GitHub had hiccups too, but they have been pretty solid.
I wasn't defending what happened, was rather reporting their reasoning for the curious. In Turkey justice has become synonymous with Erdogan's and his party's interests unfortunately.
They prey on the less educated, and banning a major source of knowledge seems like a very smart move by them.
As suggested by others, it's a court order. Turkish officials demanded a few things from wikipedia. The main item was to remove all content where Turkey is shown supporting ISIS, but they didn't receive a response, and the repercussion was blocking access nationwide.
I agree with you, that is one side of unionization, but you don't need to suffer to build a union. I am also in the bay area and have a pretty decent working conditions.
However, if a sector creates a substantial value to the economy, their unions affect governing organs, they heavily influence cities or states to work in their favor not against them. If we look at for instance how tech companies are treated in bay area vs the automotive giants over in Detroit, or potato farmers in Idaho we can see the difference.
I respect the open source culture at GitLab. I like how transparent they are, how they handle issues together with the community. But, this is a feature that is very generic. You can't blame a phone company to put a camera to their phone because company-x had it before.
> It'd probably have been better handled more subtly.
I don't think they should've handled it at all, because of their past. Today's GitLab is very different than when it was first launched as an open source project - while the logo was more like a cat[1][2]. But being passive aggressive to GitHub, the company that they think that is stealing their ideas, while still having parts that are remnants of a copy/paste job from that same GitHub, I don't know. This shouldn't mean that GitHub or anyone can steal freely GitLab's ideas. It's hard to find a solution as to how one can fix such past mistakes, but maybe an acknowledgement/owning before going defense mode help.
> If I host critical code somewhere, it has to be available…
+1, GitHub had hiccups too, but they have been pretty solid.
[0]: https://venturebeat.com/2014/03/30/threes-vs-2048-when-rip-o...
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130602065750im_/http://www.git...
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131228051528/http://gitlab.org...