A lot of people are also heavily-reliant on "free" services, like GitHub.
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Or wetransfer, I mean is this a german thingy if its for free, then people use it ?
Oh, LOL never heard of that. Good grief.
I loath having to get software from GitHub / Gitlab due to everyone's addiction to that microsoft product.
Absolutely refuse to ever have an account there again.
Whenever I have to go into vampire territory. I bring this weapon with me to keep me safe from that evil corporation.

GitLab is actually FOSS. Totally different company.

I know it is foss, but isnt it on the microsoft payroll?
No, that's GitHub. GitLab is autonomous.
Just looked into it. Yes you are right. The ownership spread stock wise is not much better though lol.