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There’s a large conflict of interest when Visual Studio is a paid commercial product, while VS Code is free yet gaining marketshare even in C#/C++ work. When so
by judge2020 5y ago
There’s a large conflict of interest when Visual Studio is a paid commercial product, while VS Code is free yet gaining marketshare even in C#/C++ work. When someone is willing to sacrifice the OSS-licensed product (even after the feature was already coded[0]), it shows Microsoft’s true colors in that they “embrace OSS” only to the extent select teams at MS choose too; the culture isn’t one that puts OSS first over sales.
0: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22262 https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22262
- jiggawatts 5y agoMy impression of VS Code was that it is a "loss leader" designed to keep users in the Microsoft ecosystem. It's about as "free" as Internet Explorer.