Hacker News Reader

Comment by radlad | Hacker News Reader

I'm sorry, I think you're trying to make a point and I'm not quite following it. Yes, Github Enterprise requires a license.

Github Enterprise is $21/user/month: https://github.com/pricing

View on HN

Oh nice that $21 includes self hosting. The point we were talking about before was the difference between the two and gitlab can let companies host it for free.

Gitlab Enterprise is not free (it costs more than Gitlab Premium, cloud, which is $29/user/month), and companies that would want to self-host something like Github Enterprise are not hosting the free version of Gitlab - so these are not comparable. For example, SAML SSO and audit streaming (SIEM support) requires paying.

As best as I can tell, your argument is "Github costs money which is bad" and I don't find it particularly convincing. Companies need to make money in order to continue producing products. That's why Gitlab sells their product too.

What makes those two features so important when using gitlab internally? Would Roku really need those features for its devs? To me they don't seem like things you worry about with normal Gitlab / Github anyways and all kinds of teams use it fine.

I'm sorry but if you don't think SSO and audit logging are important to companies, I'm inclined to believe you haven't been working long. These are typically table stakes for compliance reasons. Auditability and security of your code is incredibly important (this is your supply chain!) Yes, Roku would care. And yes, GitHub (and Gitlab!) offers these things.

Couldn't this be done by wrapping a open source service around gitlab or a git interface for it so it could be done for free?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com