> if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet.
Sorry, but this is unfair :) I remember the early days of Gitlab, before they added all the insanely cool features they have now, when they were just a Github opensource copycat. My thought at the time was : "wow, github is super cool to let them go. At least the almost exact design copy could be a legal problem". Clearly, we would have heard about Github vs Gitlab back then, if Github wanted to lock people in.
Well, if we "heard about GitHub vs. Gitlab" more people outside HN might hear about GitLab. Might be more dangerous, than the chances of a win shutting GitLab down.
Sorry, but this is unfair :) I remember the early days of Gitlab, before they added all the insanely cool features they have now, when they were just a Github opensource copycat. My thought at the time was : "wow, github is super cool to let them go. At least the almost exact design copy could be a legal problem". Clearly, we would have heard about Github vs Gitlab back then, if Github wanted to lock people in.