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by oblio 1920 days ago
The IntelliJ CE is open source. It's the exact same model.
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grey4228 1920 days ago
As I said, they are very upfront about what you're gonna get [1]. The table shows the difference between paid and open source versions.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/idea

With VSCode, it's not obvious. Whenever it comes up in HN, we feel it's open source. When one goes to it's github, one feels it's MIT licensed. That's why there are at least 3 issues in the VSCodium github asking why remote extensions are not working. It's like the excerpt from the 'Halloween documents' I commented above.

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oblio 1920 days ago
I know the Halloween documents, I've read them a bunch of times.

I don't think this is equivalent. It's their prerogative to not offer everything for free and/or make everything Open Source.

If they start banning Open Source extensions that do the exact same thing as their stuff, now that would be EEE.

Or if they change stuff in the platform to intentionally break Open Source extensions that compete with their extensions, that would also be EEE.

So far, there's no indication of that. This is just speculation.

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