I commented on this in another thread, but I'll repeat it here.
The guy in charge of making the decision weighed the fact that it's closed source, and it still won.
> But to me, the development process is more important than worrying whether a cloud-based service publishes its source code... This is especially not a worry as GitHub is not a walled garden; its extensive SDK allows for downloading any and all data that goes into the platform.
In summary, his reasons were: github has become a social network of open source devs; gitlab has no killer features github doesn't; and Guido prefers github
My personal feeing on the matter is that proprietary software can harness a lot of talent and usually delivers a better end user experience. For example, the creator of Twitter Bootstrap works for github full time. How else will you get talented people thinking about how to make a product better all day?
The guy in charge of making the decision weighed the fact that it's closed source, and it still won.
> But to me, the development process is more important than worrying whether a cloud-based service publishes its source code... This is especially not a worry as GitHub is not a walled garden; its extensive SDK allows for downloading any and all data that goes into the platform.
In summary, his reasons were: github has become a social network of open source devs; gitlab has no killer features github doesn't; and Guido prefers github
https://snarky.ca/the-history-behind-the-decision-to-move-py...
My personal feeing on the matter is that proprietary software can harness a lot of talent and usually delivers a better end user experience. For example, the creator of Twitter Bootstrap works for github full time. How else will you get talented people thinking about how to make a product better all day?