Open source software has long held the promise of displacing close source software production that is dominant nowadays via Microsoft's Windows and MS Office software and Apple's Macintosh computers operating systems.
Open source, however has not been able to live up to its promise, up till now.
R, Python, SQL, Android etc. are all open source projects. It seems the world is mature enough to accept that blue dyed hair techies or geeks called otherwise can actually serve corporations well.
Nobody minds the geeky Mark Zuckerberg, or at least all the major, sturdy, highbrow corporations of the world are tripping over themselves to advertise on the Zuckerberg owned and run Facebook software, part of Meta.
GitLab is trying to bring open source code to cloud computing via its open source code repository, collaboration, adaptation and ultimately high quality software applications output. It is interesting how the dominant mandarins of cloud computing, namely Amazon, Microsoft and Google Cloud, part of Alphabet corporation will react. Up till now the established corporations in Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing are largely ignoring the new open source competitor GitLab.
History has shown via iPhone against Blackberry and Nokia, Google against Yahoo, Facebook against everyone else that this could be very dangerous.
It remains to be seen how things will come out.
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