Expect more enshittification coming your way.

  • just another devA
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    952 months ago

    Typical that the title does mention Google (who currently has a minority stake) but not Datadog, who would become the new owner.

    But yeah, I don’t foresee a new owner making things better for gitlab.

    • @[email protected]
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      252 months ago

      I don’t know, seems like being owned by Google would be worse. They kill stuff left and right.

      • just another devA
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        172 months ago

        But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.

        Google’s involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          Partially owned gives room for the product to stay alive. It being fully owned by Google makes it subject to being killed.

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            I guess responses like yours is the reason the headline didn’t mention the actual party gitlab is in talks with. People just love to have their villain.

            Ignore the headline. Read the article. Gitlab is not about to sell to Google. They are about to sell to Datadog.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              Selling to Datadog isn’t a guarantee. The most important detail is that they’re exploring a sale, and other companies are probably going to be interested.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Oh, neat, DataDog. So if you add a new label to a repo your monthly bill would rocket to the moon.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        I feel this so much. We evaluated them at work, and while they did pretty much exactly what we wanted, we weren’t willing to pay their fees.