zlacker

It seems like in the medium term, staying independent could be a huge boon to Gitlab- like you said, it'd allow them to make high quality integrations with all cloud provider utilities.

In the long term we'd probably see the cloud providers create their own social revision control projects, and then fuck around with private APIs so the quality of the integration between their cloud service and their source control leads you to stay locked in.

Even in that scenario it could make sense for there to be a 'neutral' party like gitlab, though.

I acknowledge this is my own imagination and I've no claim to know the future! :)