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Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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I'd say it's a positioning move by Gitlab to be a better acquisition target for Google. They might have hoped for Microsoft buying them, but since Microsoft beat Google in getting a hold of Github, they now are realigning. Makes sense.

For sure this is a political move to get closer to Google and antagonizing GitHub which has gone to MS.

Weird for me as I love gitlab and azure equally.

Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Just as a sidenote: Gitlab may no longer be accessible any more from Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. From the article: NOTE to users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria GitLab.com may not be accessible after the migration to Google. Google has informed us that there are legal restrictions that are imposed for those countries. See this U.S. Department of the Treasury link for more d…

I'm more curious as to why their existing Microsoft hosting doesn't abide by the sanctions.

Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Why Crimea though? If Russia annexed it, why not block entire Russia?

Restricting US companies from doing any business with Russia hurts the US economy too much.

No it doesn’t. Non-energy related trade is basically nil.

Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Do we know if there are people using gitlab.com in North Korea?

Sometimes open source projects tend to link to their git repos. Hypothetically something to bypass censorship might just point you to a README on a repo for installation details.

Right, I get that it can be useful, I was just interested if there was any indications of gitlab being used in NK. Considering Red Star OS (the NK linux distro) it wouldn't be unimaginable if there was a gitlab fork or a few gitlab.com repos used by NK.

Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

#85

Just as a sidenote: Gitlab may no longer be accessible any more from Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. From the article: NOTE to users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria GitLab.com may not be accessible after the migration to Google. Google has informed us that there are legal restrictions that are imposed for those countries. See this U.S. Department of the Treasury link for more d…

I would assume anyone who uses Gitlab in one of these countries has already been using proxies for a long time, and that this is not going to pose the slightest problem?

Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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I honestly don't know, what is vc backed, and how does that turn it's destiny into an exit?

They have taken money from venture capitalists who will expect a return on their investment via a sale. That is how the entire venture capital system works. This is all a matter of public record tho’ it makes uncomfortable reading for some. Those who fled Github to Gitlab when Microsoft bought the former might now find a critical piece of their workflow owned by Oracle!

You can run a Gitlab installation locally, unlike Github.

I wonder if setting up Gitlab on premises is already a (small) business.

Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Just as a sidenote: Gitlab may no longer be accessible any more from Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. From the article: NOTE to users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria GitLab.com may not be accessible after the migration to Google. Google has informed us that there are legal restrictions that are imposed for those countries. See this U.S. Department of the Treasury link for more d…

This is very sad. We are using GitLab.com because the terms of use says:

21. Governing law [1]

This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands.

Is there a code hosting service in Europe or any place of the world that cubans can use?

1. https://about.gitlab.com/terms/#gitlab_com

Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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Just as a sidenote: Gitlab may no longer be accessible any more from Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. From the article: NOTE to users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria GitLab.com may not be accessible after the migration to Google. Google has informed us that there are legal restrictions that are imposed for those countries. See this U.S. Department of the Treasury link for more d…

Kinda sad that GitLab doesn't point to VPN providers that those users could use to route around this legal issue.

GitLab doing so would be arguably a deliberate violation of sanctions. While GitLab is not responsible if users decieve them about origin by using a VPN, they absolutely are if they choose an compliance mechanism that can be tricked by a VPN and then point people from sanctioned countries to a VPN provider that will trick their compliance mechanism.

The law can be stupid, but it's rarely as stupid as the people suggesting simple hacks around it think it is.

Re: Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

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post #61

I'd say it's a positioning move by Gitlab to be a better acquisition target for Google. They might have hoped for Microsoft buying them, but since Microsoft beat Google in getting a hold of Github, they now are realigning. Makes sense.

For sure this is a political move to get closer to Google and antagonizing GitHub which has gone to MS. Weird for me as I love gitlab and azure equally.

This has been planned since before the GitHub acquisition.
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