They are fast follow / undercutting by bundling ideas innovated by GitHub and CI/CD etc co's and boost marketing via OSS. Fuel rapid sprawling dev by offshoring and VC. It's a financial innovation, not tech. New tech may appear as a side-effect of ^^^^.
It's pretty darn cynical bc market fit is pre-established. Must be frustrating for folks coming from the technical innovation side of their market.
Yep, never said it was illegal! Purely a response to a comment questioning the business side, when it is a pretty by-the-numbers play. GitHub was slow on enterprise and bundling, so left room for a 'bottom feeder' to bundle & grow if they could solve the cheap dev side
It's pretty darn cynical bc market fit is pre-established. Must be frustrating for folks coming from the technical innovation side of their market.