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I think the real problem is that Microsoft worked so hard to obscure the relationship between the two via the branding and naming. It feels slimy and damages tr

I think the real problem is that Microsoft worked so hard to obscure the relationship between the two via the branding and naming. It feels slimy and damages trust. Did they? Was that their intent - to obscure? If Microsoft “worked so hard” then it should be easy to point to evidence. I'm a career JavaScript developer and I didn't know there was a separate, "truly open source" version. It kind of seems like because you didn’t know something, it implies that someone is engaging in intentional, malicious behavior.

_bxg1 8y ago
The whole point of the ticket is that it's unclear and ambiguous throughout their website. Also, the OSS version doesn't even have a different name. It's still just "VSCode". Compare this to Chromium which has a related-but-distinct name and related-but-distinct icon. The point I was trying to make is that I myself am immersed in the target community for this software, yet the messaging was not clear to me. I use React, I've worked with Electron, Atom is my go-to editor. I am VSCode's target user, and I did not remotely get the message. That suggests their messaging was either really bad, or intentionally misleading.