VSCode Open Source Debate
Cluster centers on debates about whether Microsoft's VSCode is truly open source, citing telemetry, proprietary extensions (e.g., Python, Remote SSH), marketplace restrictions, and the VSCodium fork as a purer open source alternative.
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VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
You do realize VSCode is open-source?
VSCode is open source and you are free to alter it (MIT license), removing those parts that you say Microsoft is using to "charge" you. Or just use vscodium.
VS Code is not really open source.https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4288/is-micro...https://code.visualstudio.co
The vast majority of vscode is opensource actually. I'm unaware of any major feature that is not part of their OSS project.https://vscodium.com/
VSCode is not fully open source, either.
Isn't vscode open-source? I'm using vscodium with all MS links removed, I don't think MS can charge licenses for that.
vscode isn't open source it's proprietary Microsoft. only "code oss" is.
vscode is heavily marketed as open source, not open core. yet key microsoft extensions are closed, as people are often surprised to find out
VSCode's marketing was that it is an open source editor you could rely upon, complete with open source extensions for popular languages like Python. Then when once it became popular and vscodium was growing in popularity (a vscode fork), MS locked things down. Now the Python extensions are closed source, and MS has artificially prevented vscode forks from using those extensions. A bait and switch if I've ever seen one.