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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Comments like this are so frustrating to see, as my company goes backwards, moving from Gitlab to GitHub.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, didn't Gitlab also say they were going all-in on AI?

There's no major forge you can use for proprietary projects that isn't shitty.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Forgejo, if you self host it, you can use it for propietary projects
(And it's as easy as deploying a docker container and hitting start, really)

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 22 minutes ago

Yes, but then you hold all the liability for your shit going missing. The entire point of using a managed service like github or gitlab is that you have someone to sue.