> VS Code is open source Not quite: https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-are-proprietary.html https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visua

> VS Code is open source Not quite: https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-are-proprietary.html https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-ar... > Microsoft's Python language server (used by multiple closed-source products) Citation needed on "(used by multiple closed-source products)". > Microsoft is providing a free licence to the language server. No it isn't: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4#issuecomment-654083567 https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4#issuec... > ... any of the code ... | ... the first code base ... | ... a code base ... | ... amounts of code into to Open Source ... You keep talking about the "code" / "code base". I'm talking about the whole project and how MS has been advertising itself. Open Source is NOT the same as "source available" and MS has not been advertising itself as "hearts source-available". > ... more stuff for free. Again, your perspective makes sense only if you think of "Free as in Beer" and not "Free as in Freedom". _Microsoft_ held _itself_ up to the latter standard, not random people on the internet.