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GitLab names Bill Staples as new CEO

Dec 5, 2024 | about.gitlab.com | Sid Sijbrandij

This message from Sid Sijbrandij and Bill Staples was shared with GitLab team members earlier today. Sid: On today’s earnings call, I announced that I am stepping down as CEO and will remain Executive Chair of the Board. I also introduced GitLab’s new CEO, Bill Staples. As a Board, we routinely do succession planning. This includes conversations with a number of top executives. We’ve been having these conversations in greater earnest since my cancer returned.
Comment Sid Sijbrandij, le PDG de GitLab a créé une entreprise majeure en 100% télétravail

Oct 16, 2023 | hbrfrance.fr | Sid Sijbrandij

Lorsque Dmitriy Zaporozhets et moi avons décidé de lancer une société autour de GitLab, l’application de développement logiciel collaborative open source qu’il avait développée et sur laquelle j’avais travaillé, nous n’avions pas le projet d’en faire l’une des plus grandes organisations au monde opérant intégralement en télétravail. Simplement, nous vivions à 2 000 kilomètres l’un de l’autre, lui en Ukraine et moi aux Pays-Bas, et notre premier salarié se trouvait en Serbie.
AGPL license is a non-starter for most companies

Oct 8, 2023 | opencoreventures.com | Sid Sijbrandij

Published: Oct 9, 2023 By: Sid Sijbrandij The AGPL license was designed to close what’s perceived by some as a loophole in the GPL license. The GPL is a popular free software license that guarantees anyone who has received a copy of the software the right to run, study, modify, and share it for free or for a fee. Distributors of GPL-licensed software are not allowed to place restrictions on the rights guaranteed by the license.
Disagree, commit, and disagree: How a lazy solution became a category

Aug 30, 2023 | about.gitlab.com | Sid Sijbrandij

A few months ago, GitLab - and the DevOps Platform category - reached a big milestone. Two influential analyst firms, Gartner and Forrester, issued reports that validate the market is moving from point solutions to a platform. They officially recognized DevOps platforms as a category. A category we created. This is the story of how we did it. I am thrilled that we created a category. Very few companies are able to do so.
HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies

Aug 23, 2023 | opencoreventures.com | Sid Sijbrandij

Published: Aug 23, 2023 By: Sid Sijbrandij In recent years, several high-profile open source companies have made headlines by shifting their licensing agreements away from purely open source models. MariaDB was first with its introduction of the Business Source License (BSL) in 2016 and was closely followed by MongoDB, Confluent, Redis Labs, and others. Now, HashiCorp is the latest company to follow this trend and announce its switch from an open source to a non-compete license.
RedHat found a way to get around the GPLv2 license intention with contract law

Aug 4, 2023 | opencoreventures.com | Sid Sijbrandij

Published: Aug 3, 2023 By: Sid Sijbrandij I recently wrote about how the Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat. But Red Hat’s recent move to only provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code to customers suggests that the “Red Hat model” no longer works for Red Hat. Removing the public code base for CentOS and only offering the RHEL source code to customers may be technically legal but it lacks transparency and is a sideways attempt to restrict the redistribution of open source code.
AI weights are not open "source"

Jul 5, 2023 | opencoreventures.com | Sid Sijbrandij

Published: Jun 27, 2023 By: Sid Sijbrandij AI licensing is extremely complex. Unlike software licensing, AI isn’t as simple as applying current proprietary/open source software licenses. AI has multiple components—the source code, weights, data, etc.—that are licensed differently. AI also poses socio-ethical consequences that don’t exist on the same scale as computer software, necessitating more restrictions like behavioral use restrictions, in some cases, and distribution restrictions.
GitLab details AI-assisted features in the DevSecOps platform

May 3, 2023 | about.gitlab.com | Sid Sijbrandij

This morning, GitLab’s Chief Financial Officer Brian Robins and I led a fireside chat focused on GitLab’s AI strategy, AI’s role in solving customer pain points, and our AI product roadmap. AI marks a big industry shift that will make it easier to develop, secure, and operate software. We plan to infuse AI throughout the software development lifecycle by incorporating it into our comprehensive enterprise DevSecOps platform.
Gitlab CEO’su ile Dünyanın Tamamen Uzaktan Çalışılan En Büyük Şirketlerini İnşa Etmek Üzerine

Apr 30, 2023 | hbrturkiye.com | Sid Sijbrandij |Karthik Ramanna |Nour Kteily |Beliz Kudat

X Üye Girişi Üye Ol PAROLAMI UNUTTUM “ÜYE OL” butonuna basarak üyeliğinize ait Şartlar ve Koşulları, Gizlilik Politikası ile KVKK Aydınlatma Metni’ni okuduğunuzu ve HBR Türkiye tarafından size özel oluşturulan hizmet, kampanya ve promosyonlara yönelik elektronik posta almayı kabul etmiş sayılırsınız. E-bülten aboneliğinden dilediğiniz zaman çıkabilirsiniz. Parola sıfırlama linki e-mail adresinize gönderilecektir.
The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat

Apr 15, 2023 | opencoreventures.com | Sid Sijbrandij

Published: Apr 14, 2023 By: Sid Sijbrandij Giant value creation, very little value capture. That is the Red Hat model. The first company to successfully commercialize open source software at scale, Red Hat managed to make a billion-dollar business out of selling vetted open source updates and providing multi-product support, services, and training. At first, the model seemed like it could be the blueprint for commercial open source software.