[exq]

Embrace, extend, extinguish

[ClumsyPilot]

This old chestbut is long past its expiration date

[endperform]

Agreed. I laugh every time someone posts it. If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.

[servilio]

> If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.

How do you envision they could do it? Doesn't seem plausible to me, given the distributed nature of the development of Linux.

BTW, they actually tried:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Just totally failed.

[prirun]

Buy Canonical.

I don't think MS actually cares if Linux exists, if most people pay a Windows license fee to run it.

[croes]

See VS Code vs Atom

[zamalek]

Although I agree with the idea that VSCode is a Trojan horse, Atom had some severe fundamental issues (running everything in the UI thread) and would have come to an end no matter what.

[croes]

After MS bought GitHub for sure.

[shepherdjerred]

How dare Microsoft make a superior product that aligns with their business

[croes]

How dare MS to block VS Codium from the extension marketplace.

[Scharkenberg]

Is there anything stopping anyone from offering and maintaining an open-source store with open-source extensions for VS Codium?

[croes]

The same that stops anyone building an alternative to the npm registry plus the extensions made by MS which won't be in that marketplace. Like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31760684