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> I do not understand people with allergy to non OSS. Maybe this will help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24047877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
by shaan7 6y ago
> I do not understand people with allergy to non OSS.
Maybe this will help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24047877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24047877
`I don't think it says "Software not open-source is bad". But more something like "It is marketed as open source but it is not".'
> just for the sake of keeping OSS folks happy.
Heh. Maybe it is just me but that sounds very condescending.
- nudpiedo 6y agoI agree with you if the optic is just that it is marketed as OSS but it is in fact not. I woudl still argue that this is the state of the art in nowadays OSS, like for example Mongo or other OSS projects which use OSS for marketing purposes and some key features are then later propetary or licensed differently
- shaan7 6y ago> state of the art in nowadays OSS I agree with that, in fact it has been for quite a while. There are lots of OSS projects which have companies selling proprietary extensions for. For example, The Qt Company sells a proprietary plugin that automatically generates QML from Photoshop designs. Most people are fine with that because it is a very niche feature and not something that is the value proposition of the OSS project (Qt in this example). OTOH, the OP feels like LiveShare, Remote and Marketplace are VSCode's primary value proposition - in which case it is fair to object to it being marketed as OSS. (although I personally consider only Marketplace to qualify)
- naikrovek 6y agoVscode is open source. You can clone it and build it. The binary you get from Microsoft is that open source stuff plus a small number of closed additions. Vscodium is some wrapper scripts to download vscode source, fix up a dev environment suitable for building vscode, and building it while rebranding it "vscodium".