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I think VS Code's popularity has very little with it being open source. Indeed, many of the components that makes up the distribution of VS Code people use are
by madeofpalk 4y ago
I think VS Code's popularity has very little with it being open source. Indeed, many of the components that makes up the distribution of VS Code people use are closed source.
Would it be better if VS Code was completely closed source?
- ghusto 4y agoFrom the perspective of the Open Source community, you mean? I'd say yes. At least then people would know upfront what the game is, and maybe it wouldn't attract certain users. Same with his Android example. It's _technically_ open source, but not for most practical cases (similarly with VSCode, there's a version you can download right now that's fully open source, it's just not very practical).
- madeofpalk 4y agoI think things like LineageOS and other android forks have proven that there are benefits for Android being open source.
- solomatov 4y agoCould you tell which of the many components are closed source?