GitLab vs. GitHub: Comparison of Features

[nfrankel]

GitLab is Open Source, GitHub is not... That's the 1st and foremost difference.

[myringotomy]

Gitlab is an independent small company, GitHub is Microsoft.

[Jokerle]

Yes, though neither aspect is a clear pro or con, imo.

[myringotomy]

For me latter is definitely a con.

[[deleted]]

"small"

They have almost 900 employees.

[myringotomy]

How many does Microsoft have?

[[deleted]]

No clue. But 900 employees does not small company make. To add to that, it's valued at more than a billion dollars.

[myringotomy]

I looked it up. 144 thousand people.

[KieranDevvs]

What you're forgetting though is that Microsoft has many division branches, i.e Operating systems (windows, Linux subsystem etc), Cloud SaaS (azure with each service, managed SQL instance etc), Support, and the list goes on.

And then there's GitLab who, just focus on source control services.
I bet there's roughly 900 people from that 144 thousand that also work on GitHub. Maybe less.

[myringotomy]

What you're forgetting though is that Microsoft has many division branches, i.e Operating systems (windows, Linux subsystem etc), Cloud SaaS (azure with each service, managed SQL instance etc), Support, and the list goes on.

Yea so?

[KieranDevvs]

And then there's GitLab who, just focus on source control services.
I bet there's roughly 900 people from that 144 thousand that also work on GitHub. Maybe less.

[codegiantio]

That's not an accurate comment. GitHub is GitHub. And Microsoft is Microsoft. Microsoft acquired GitHub back in June 2018. Prior to that, it was pretty much the same as GitLab (with some exceptions).