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This reads like you haven't paid attention to anything Microsoft has done for the last five or so years, including VS Code. The strategy around VS Code is entir

This reads like you haven't paid attention to anything Microsoft has done for the last five or so years, including VS Code. The strategy around VS Code is entirely consistent with the more open-source-supportive angle the company has been taking, and the editor is very performant and well-engineered compared with Atom.

braderhart 9y ago
Haha, please enlighten me. Let's see what open source license Microsoft picked for their generous efforts to restore socioeconomic equality: https://code.visualstudio.com/license https://code.visualstudio.com/license
- yorwba 9y ago
  From that page there's a trail of links to this explanation for the licensing: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-161792005 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... TLDR: Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft-branded product that is made available to users under a Microsoft-y license. However, the "vscode" project containing almost all code for that product is open-sourced under MIT.
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  - braderhart 9y ago
    Are you serious? You have to link me to a GitHub issue where they still don't clearly explain their license, and then if you read the comments you can see tons of other concerns that they never address. It is almost like they want to keep spying on you and exploiting.. hmm, strange. Weird that they have so many trade offs for privacy always. I see small two-person teams doing more work and good for software than mega-corporations like Microsoft.