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0 pointsmort9611mo ago0 comments

For people who see VS Code as just a decent gratis text editor, there's no problem.

For people who care, to some degree, about using an open source tool, for whom the marketing that VS Code is open source played a role in their choice of using it, it should matter. And it matters that other projects (think Platform IO and more) choose VS Code as a platform to build on top of, and they get away with it because "it's open source".

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wolvesechoes11mo ago

Then people should stop caring about open source, care about free software instead, and do not forget that it is free-as-in-freedom, so they should still pay for their tools.

Otherwise keep hoping that your corporate or VC funded SaaS "disruptor" master will continue to be nice to you

mort96OP11mo ago

But VS Code is not even open source, so even people who only care about open source should be worried about using VS Code.

concerndc1tizen11mo ago

I feel like comments lately have become full of false statements.

VSCode is MIT licensed. But the extensions aren't, which locks you into the Microsoft distribution of VSCode. And that's how they turned an open source product into a monopoly-enhancing tool.

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