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Vscode is not free btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488436 The thing is always the same, in OSS you ge
by greatgib 4y ago
Vscode is not free btw:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488436
The thing is always the same, in OSS you get for free a little bit less good version of VSCode. But you get used to it, competitor development is killed little by little, like in the current case.
And, when everyone is "hooked", and every one and companies are used to it, you can slowly reduce/limit the oss version and push everyone to the the proprietary version with telemetry, evil, and more.
Same thing with the OSS version of Android.
Or, worse, what happened with Chrome that replaced every browser engine except FF and Safari to the point of domination. And now, regularly Google impose theirs changes unilaterally to the Web community without discussion possible.
- dijit 4y agoI'm not sure your link is pointing to the right place; right now it goes to an article titled "The Xinjiang Police Files". Also, to your point about vscode not being free; you're right of course, but we _do_ have a FOSS edition of it.
- lobocinza 4y agoI think you posted the wrong link.
- greatgib 4y agoThanks for the notice for the link. Sadly I can't edit anymore... Here is the good one: https://carlchenet.com/you-think-the-visual-studio-code-binary-you-use-is-a-free-software-think-again/ https://carlchenet.com/you-think-the-visual-studio-code-bina...