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This has been known for nearly two years now[1], and was talked about here a few months ago[2]. VSCode also downloads code from MicroSoft servers during the bu

by huntie 8y ago

This has been known for nearly two years now[1], and was talked about here a few months ago[2]. VSCode also downloads code from MicroSoft servers during the build process and won't build without an Internet connection. I'm pretty sure someone had forked VSCode like ungoogled-chromium but I can't find the repository. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346492

josh64 8y ago
Are you thinking of https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium ?
- jillesvangurp 8y ago
  Covered here just a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17850960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17850960 This article is similarly alarmist with some stupid click bait title suggesting that you are too stupid to read the documentation that comes with VS Code which points all of this out but somehow smart enough to read the genius bit of journalism that uncovered this terrible truth. Just checkout what vscodium actually modifies. There are a few small diffs to disable telemetry and take out branding and a few other things. But this is hardly some secret plot by MS to do something evil. It's a nice product provided to you by free by MS that is almost entirely open source. Yes it has a bit of branding and a bit of telemetry, which is presumably there to help them improve the product. If the handful of stuff in there that isn't OSS bothers you for whatever reason, you can indeed build from source and take these things out like vscodium seems to be doing. You'd be well in your rights to do that. And it's very relevant for e.g. linux distributions like Debian or OSS purists.
- huntie 8y ago
  Yeah that's it.
bubblethink 8y ago
Flathub has the free version https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code.oss https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code.oss and the non-free one https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code Tangentially, this is one of my gripes with stuff like flathub/snapstore since they are hybrid stores of both free and non-free software. In the traditional model, you can trust your debian/fedora maintainers to have strict standards for anything that gets to the base system. Now, with more and more distros enabling snap/flatpak by default, it dilutes that guarantee. Perhaps snap/flatpak ought to adopt a granular free/non-free distinction like repos.
OnlyRepliesToBS 8y ago
someone will always climb out of a rock

by huntie 8y ago

josh64 8y ago

Are you thinking of https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium ?

jillesvangurp 8y ago
Covered here just a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17850960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17850960 This article is similarly alarmist with some stupid click bait title suggesting that you are too stupid to read the documentation that comes with VS Code which points all of this out but somehow smart enough to read the genius bit of journalism that uncovered this terrible truth. Just checkout what vscodium actually modifies. There are a few small diffs to disable telemetry and take out branding and a few other things. But this is hardly some secret plot by MS to do something evil. It's a nice product provided to you by free by MS that is almost entirely open source. Yes it has a bit of branding and a bit of telemetry, which is presumably there to help them improve the product. If the handful of stuff in there that isn't OSS bothers you for whatever reason, you can indeed build from source and take these things out like vscodium seems to be doing. You'd be well in your rights to do that. And it's very relevant for e.g. linux distributions like Debian or OSS purists.
huntie 8y ago
Yeah that's it.

bubblethink 8y ago

Flathub has the free version https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code.oss https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code.oss and the non-free one https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code Tangentially, this is one of my gripes with stuff like flathub/snapstore since they are hybrid stores of both free and non-free software. In the traditional model, you can trust your debian/fedora maintainers to have strict standards for anything that gets to the base system. Now, with more and more distros enabling snap/flatpak by default, it dilutes that guarantee. Perhaps snap/flatpak ought to adopt a granular free/non-free distinction like repos.

OnlyRepliesToBS 8y ago

someone will always climb out of a rock