[echelon]

> Hosted VSCode instances that Microsoft has on Azure and in beta on GitHub are a different thing and are not open source.

I can see it now: one day all of our engineering work will happen exclusively in the cloud and we'll all be using thin clients.

Just like smart phones, the typical desktop or laptop will become a dumb device. A Chromebook, but worse.

Subscribe to your tools, for the low monthly cost of only... And wait, there's more. You can upgrade your storage and execution time package.

Augh.

[nwienert]

Yep. And Google Colab is a Trojan horse. Give away free GPUs for a few years to choke out any competition, guaranteed they start charging for them once they’ve done that.

[farisjarrah]

I like seeing arguments like these and then I go and see people do stuff like this where people get Debian running on Kindles:

https://github.com/kathamer/DebianKindle

Whenever there is locked down hardware, invariably there is always someone trying to hack it.

[candiodari]

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html