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Single-vendor is not proprietary because I can fork VSCode and I can't fork Microsoft Word. Single-vendor open source is the balance some companies have found
by Centigonal 2y ago
Single-vendor is not proprietary because I can fork VSCode and I can't fork Microsoft Word.
Single-vendor open source is the balance some companies have found between sharing their software with the community and capturing the value of their employees' labor. It's less free than openly developed FOSS and more free than proprietary software. It's unrealistic to expect all software to be openly developed FOSS with today's economics; the hundreds of thousands of contributors to single-vendor open source projects all need rent money, and you can't build a business on providing the open-source backend for AWS managed services.
Companies will move up and down the freedom gradient depending on their needs at any given time. Sometimes they do it well, and sometimes they handle it in a kludgy and myopic way (I'm looking at you, HashiCorp). LinkedIn open-sourced Kafka, and Elastic restricted their license for ElasticSearch. Software doesn't always go from "more free" to "less free."
- devdao 2y agoYou can't forkvscode...
- SpecialistK 2y agohttps://github.com/microsoft/vscode/forks https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/forks 27,000 people seem to have done so.
- amarshall 2y agoThat repo is not actually VS Code. What you get when you download compiled VS Code releases includes proprietary, closed-source components. If you build “VS Code” from OSS components, you do not end up with VS Code.
- QuantumG 2y agoChromium is still useful but it's not Chrome.
- circuit10 2y agoMost of the differences are configuration though, or at least I didn’t notice any significant differences other than that using an unbranded build
- imtringued 2y agoSo you're saying Microsoft should share their brand with you?
- amarshall 2y agoNo, and I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
- Nullabillity 2y agomicrosoft/vscode is not the same as the VS Code you download from MS. The latter has a bunch of DRM stuff that many MS plugins require.
- dreadlordbone 2y agoCursor is an AI first fork of VS Code
- devdao 2y agoThank you, downvoters, for freeing me from ever taking votes here seriously. Downvote a man for being right? About an on topic technical matter? In a technical forum? Thanks ;)
- josephcsible 2y ago> I can fork VSCode Well, sort of. You lose a whole bunch of stuff (e.g., Pylance) by doing so.