Post #1563094
2026-01-24 20:53 UTC
@T_X @dentangle FYI: GitLab happily collaborates with ICE.
Here's what GitLab's CEO, Sid Sijbrandij, himself committed:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/b5a35716deb4f63299a23a40510475f5503c11c4
> vetting customers is time consuming and potentially distracting.
GitLab employees are forbidden to discuss politics at work or raise concerns about GitLab's customers.
Even when it's perfectly clear that a customer is evil, they want to "do business with customers with values that are incompatible with our own values".
They "welcome everyone […] to be customers of GitLab" as they "do not currently exclude anyone from being a customer based on moral/value grounds."
Here's a news article:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/
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@dentangle@chaos.social 2026-01-24 21:47
@davidculley @T_X Indeed. GitLab is rather easier to avoid, thankfully. There are a few projects that self-host the MIT-licensed software, but I've never had a GitLab account, nor needed one to contribute to FOSS.