I can see how remote can be a vital plugin these days for some...although I can't say it makes vscode what it is. there are workarounds and it's not like remote

I can see how remote can be a vital plugin these days for some...although I can't say it makes vscode what it is. there are workarounds and it's not like remote doesn't have its own problems. LiveShare though doesn't convince me because there are existing ways of code sharing and collaboration that doesn't involve google doc style live sharing at all. In fact that pattern sounds a bit weird to me. I guess it enables pair programming if you really need it but it's completely useless to me. I use git+reviewboard to share my code and they work just fine. That said, I do think the author's larger point stand. Microsoft's good will to be open source extends only to where it wishes and in this case it's a rather limited range. I believe in the spirit of sharing code and I think sharing more is better than sharing less, which is better than not sharing at all.