As a serious competitor of GitHub, GitLab has been competing with it in the source code repository market since its inception. Especially after Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018, GitLab launched the migration function promptly, causing many developers to turn to GitLab. GitLab grew rapidly and was successfully listed in October last year. The closing price on the first day was as high as $103.89.
Perhaps because the competition between GitHub and GitLab is too “straightforward”, netizens can easily associate the behavior of one of them. For example, it was recently revealed that GitLab prohibits employees from using Windows. Is it because GitHub is also owned by Microsoft?
No Use Of Microsoft Windows
According to GitLab’s official website, since its establishment ten years ago, GitLab has always adhered to open source and openness, “from a group of coders with their laptops to an organization that needs to protect not only their company data but also customer data.” For security reasons, GitLab believes it is important to make uniform adjustments to employee computer configurations.
