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by Vinnl 2607 days ago
Thanks for pointing that out.

(Also odd formulation of the question: "Why aren't the open soure? - We made the decision to keep them closed source." The actual answer is to the next question: "we may provide premium developer services.")
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pytester 2607 days ago
After embracing open source, they appear to now be extending it...
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WalterGR 2607 days ago
After embracing open source, they appear to now be extending it...

This is an add-on to Microsoft’s open source editor... Is your concern that Microsoft has embraced VS Code, is now extending it, and has the sinister end goal of exterminating VS Code?

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hackerfromthefu 2606 days ago
What happens is they extinguish the competing alternative open source products, by taking mindshare and users from them.

Then once the alternatives are no longer so viable, they use their dominant market share to their advantage and the detriment of users.

It's what google has done with Android, Chrome, Gmail.

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WalterGR 2606 days ago
What happens is they extinguish the competing alternative open source products, by taking mindshare and users from them.

Oh my.

That’s called “competition”.

You are mis-construing EEE.

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sofaofthedamned 2607 days ago
That's the exact thing I thought with this. How are they that without a clue as to the world right now when they do stuff like this?
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pkaye 2607 days ago
I'm guessing they concerned about just enabling Amazon cloud. Amazon has a way of taking stuff and not returning much.
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paulddraper 2607 days ago
Wonder what they'll think of next
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xtracto 2607 days ago
Specially since there are already open-source alternatives:

https://github.com/cdr/code-server

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meysholdt 2607 days ago
https://www.theia-ide.org/ is vendor-neutral open source governed by an open source foundation (the Eclipe Foundation).
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niutech 2607 days ago
Theia is made by TypeFox and the Eclipse Foundation is developing the Orion IDE: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion
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meysholdt 2607 days ago
It's a bit more complicated, actually:

Theia is being developed by TypeFox, Ericsson, RedHat, ARM and more. Orion is being developed by IBM and more.

Both Theia and Orion are projects under the umbrella of the Eclipse Foundation: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ecd.theia https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ecd.orion

The Eclipse Foundation (in the very most cases) does not develop software. They also usually do not pay developers. Their role it to arrange that companies and contributors play fair and nice when creating and using open source software.

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