According to my, possibly incorrect, take on the situation this does not really make that much sense.
As I understand it, like GitHub, GitLab offers relatively permissive free plans to individuals and projects in their early stages. Both also offer pathways to graduate to commercial plans that are also enterprise friendly.
It sounds like GitLab planned telemetry for the enterprise-managed plans (not the individual-managed plans). If GitLab was seen as an alternative to Microsoft-owned GitHub, the plans for telemetry undermined this reason for developers to start their projects with GitLab instead of GitHub and advocate its use to managers, investors, and legal departments.
If that is the situation, where does SourceHut stand? The site makes little sense to me. The URL is sourcehut.org, but there is no statement about it being a non-profit, or any discussion about a board that manages it. There is a pricing page, but no contact us page. I don't know where it is based, and I can't find a reference on Crunchbase to get any idea of who owns the company.
If it is a competitor to GitLab, maybe it is a competitor in the space for individual developers, but there wasn't a significant problem for individual developers when it comes to GitLab (or Github). If the problem with GitLab's announcement was that it made the upgrade path less enterprise friendly, how is SourceHub an improvement if by all appearances it is incompatible with any sane enterprise.
I don't have a reply for most of your comment, but with respect to this part:
>If that is the situation, where does SourceHut stand? The site makes little sense to me. The URL is sourcehut.org, but there is no statement about it being a non-profit, or any discussion about a board that manages it. There is a pricing page, but no contact us page. I don't know where it is based, and I can't find a reference on Crunchbase to get any idea of who owns the company.
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As I understand it, like GitHub, GitLab offers relatively permissive free plans to individuals and projects in their early stages. Both also offer pathways to graduate to commercial plans that are also enterprise friendly.
It sounds like GitLab planned telemetry for the enterprise-managed plans (not the individual-managed plans). If GitLab was seen as an alternative to Microsoft-owned GitHub, the plans for telemetry undermined this reason for developers to start their projects with GitLab instead of GitHub and advocate its use to managers, investors, and legal departments.
If that is the situation, where does SourceHut stand? The site makes little sense to me. The URL is sourcehut.org, but there is no statement about it being a non-profit, or any discussion about a board that manages it. There is a pricing page, but no contact us page. I don't know where it is based, and I can't find a reference on Crunchbase to get any idea of who owns the company.
If it is a competitor to GitLab, maybe it is a competitor in the space for individual developers, but there wasn't a significant problem for individual developers when it comes to GitLab (or Github). If the problem with GitLab's announcement was that it made the upgrade path less enterprise friendly, how is SourceHub an improvement if by all appearances it is incompatible with any sane enterprise.