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@alxlg@mastodon.social @julian@fed.foad.me.uk "Now"? It's a proprietary system with an open core, it's not free as in freedom. Especially the SaaS hosted version is not something you should depend on if you care for software freedom.

I believe GitLab the company is on the stock market these days too, which means they have a very serious dedication to chase money rather than quality. They'll do more and more undesirable actions with the project and it will lower the quality over time, but even today you should definitely not support their proprietary platform if you care for software freedom.

Just because its used by many projects doesn't mean it is good. Many free software projects use or have used #GitHub, and these days many also opt to use #Slack or #Discord. None of these platforms should ever be considered, yet here we are. Arguing something must be great because a project you respect uses it seems very shortsighted, and is exactly the kind of behaviour I point out in my previous post. People who loudly proclaim the believe in free software, but when it comes down to it, they don't actually care a single bit the moment it implies they have to do some effort to stand up for their supposed ideals.