Well I won't downvote you, but your reasoning is a bit poor. There are many open source IDEs out there, VSCode just being just one of the few. So why not boycot

Well I won't downvote you, but your reasoning is a bit poor. There are many open source IDEs out there, VSCode just being just one of the few. So why not boycott all those other editors too? You also imply that because Microsoft is such a big company it can put more resources than the other editors can, thus having "unfair" advantage over the others? I understand your concern, but as far as I know Microsoft hasn't leveraged VSCode's market share to do anything unreasonable and alas, if they did I'm sure people would just fork the editor without all the BS of Microsoft. And I'm not against IntelliJ and they make good editors, but I don't want to pay for their products if I any way can. If Microsoft gains goodwill of developers and a lot of users for their product, well good for them! About time they started doing that. I still dislike Windows as much as before, but hey I got now a great editor that is free and I love to use.