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Congratulations Mitchell, Armon, Dave, and everyone else at Hashicorp. We made a blog post to celebrate https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/12/09/congratulations-to-...

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"please buy us with the money!"

Starting to see this a lot, and it makes all the words of encouragement feel fake, because it is always using words like "we" and linking back to their own stuff. It comes off as hollow.

nerds: stop bringing your own cake to other people's birthday parties.

Yeah, unless it's ice cream cake. I'm a sucker for that...

> nerds: stop bringing your own cake to other people's birthday parties.

What does this have to do with nerds? Articles like that are probably written by PR staff.

Not sure you're aware but, that's the CEO of Gitlab. It's poor taste, by nerds who should know better. We should be better than this.

I don't understand your insistance on "nerds" and don't see who "we" is supposed to be.

"we" as a company as opposed to the authors spontaneous feelings. I don't know about the nerd thing though

Does that mean that 0des is speaking as a Gitlab employee here? I'm sorry if the question is stupid, the whole thing sounds very confusing to me.

As far as I understood, the criticism is that OP as a chairman of Gitlab used 'we' to refer to the whole company as opposed to his own opinion. The criticism then refers to an appeal or sympathy grabbing with an economic motivation.

I couldn't care less to be honest, just clarifying what I understood.

Happy for Hashicorp, also love Gitlab.

Or perhaps they just want to give a shout out to a fairly rare bird, the massively successful open source company... or both.

Gitlab just IPO'ed this year. It seems unlikely, that this would be a motivation.

Maybe my Google Fu is failing me, but doesn't gitlab have double the market cap than HashiCorp right now? What money would they buy them with?

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