Just so there is a community record of the unrelated Raspberry Pi incident: A. It wasn’t arbitrary. One of the goals of the Raspberry Pi foundation is access t

Just so there is a community record of the unrelated Raspberry Pi incident: A. It wasn’t arbitrary. One of the goals of the Raspberry Pi foundation is access to computing and learning. To facilitate that they added this repository to make it seamless to install Visual Studio Code which as of the time of this writing is one of the most popular code editors and often one that is recommended to beginners B) despite reports to the contrary, not a single system package was added, this specifically is aimed at making VS Code installs easier[0] Again concern across the board is okay and things deserve scrutiny, but evidence needs to be provided when making these assertions. I’m no apologist, MS had done some deplorable things, this (and to the extend they were even involved is questionable entirely) is not one of them [0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/raspberry-pi-os-added-a-microsoft-repo-no-its-not-an-evil-secret/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/raspberry-pi-os-adde...