Building an Open Core Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO
Here's the open source definition:<p><a href="https://opensource.org/osd-annotated" rel="nofollow">https://opensource.org/osd-annotated</a><p>Gitlab EE, which is how Gitlab makes its money, comes nowhere close to meeting that. It's pretty much straight up corporate dishonesty to pretend to be an open source company when you're following a proprietary software model to make money.<p>You're no more an "Open Source Company" than Apple or Microsoft, who also have some open source projects separate from their main revenue streams.