[oaiey]

It is an App Store monopoly problem. Take Google Android as a counterpart.

Android Open Source Project = VS Code (MIT codebase(

Android at Samsung and dozens other = VS Code with Microsoft EULA

Enforced Play Store in vendor phones = VS Code Extension Market Place (not accessible to any other competition)

Google offering dominant services = Microsoft Language Packages (both proprietary => user lock in)

Google abusing it (eg by marketing, subscriptions, ...) = Microsoft abusing it

So what is explained in that article is how you run a monopoly on an open source project. Julia and the DevDiv is doing that. That is understandable (she has to make money to get her bonus) but not good for the rest of us.

Disclaimer: .NET fanboy

[blackoil]

A major material difference is that unlike phone world wherein a duopoly controls the market and supply chain is also similarly locked. We have a very functional ecosystem of competing products. I can choose to use IntelliJ, Eclipse, Vim, Emacs ... without completely disrupting my life.

Tomorrow Intellij may decide to launch paid LSPs for Java/Go/... and MS is already using same components for VSCode and Visual Studio. Or author of GitLens can port his plugin to Intellij or Eclipse