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Just to be clear, I'm not the OP (meaning, video producer). I really don't think it matters that MSFT controls it, I use VSCode, and I like it.

But, I also understand that "well, you could just fork it" doesn't fix the problem the author brings up. Who owns the marketplace around VSCode? Who controls what is allowed in? What if MSFT decided to not allow GitLab extensions, or AWS extensions to further its own products? MSFT _has_ done these things in the past.

I'm just saying that handing the governorship of the project to an independent organization would address these issues. MSFT could still build and contribute to it, but the project direction, the telemetry, the ecosystem, could be managed by an independent agency, and that would solve the issues the OP has with the product.