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Why would this happen to VsCode? VSCode is a proprietary form of Atom is not? It’s hugely successful Microsoft would never do such a thing.
by edgyquant 4y ago
Why would this happen to VsCode? VSCode is a proprietary form of Atom is not? It’s hugely successful Microsoft would never do such a thing.
- mumblemumble 4y agoSort of? They maintain a trademark on the name Visual Studio Code and some other bits. And it is maintained by a Microsoft team. But the code itself is MIT licensed. You can build it yourself. I have. There are one or two forks of it out there.
- IncRnd 4y agoThe codebases of VS Code and Atom are unrelated to each other.
- edgyquant 4y agoIndeed. At least I’m not the first person to make this mistake https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872976 https://thenextweb.com/news/microsofts-cross-platform-visual-studio-code-app-is-based-on-githubs-atom-editor https://thenextweb.com/news/microsofts-cross-platform-visual... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221917