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by boredtofears 605 days ago
It’s possible to be both critical of Microsoft’s past and also pleased at their last decade of efforts in OSS with things like vscode and typescript.
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dartos 605 days ago
It’s possible to do both of those and still not trust MS.

I don’t believe that vscode will be this free mostly open editor forever. I’m expecting to see vscode pro or something any day.

Typescript can, very cynically, be seen as an on-ramp for vscode, as vscode has pretty much the best typescript suppor.

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boredtofears 605 days ago
Luckily that’s why we have OSS licenses, if/when they do that there will be a community fork.
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dartos 605 days ago
> if/when they do that there will be a community fork

One would hope, but if all the project’s experts are hired and have been working for a company that closed their once open source project, forks will have a hard time surviving.

That’s why redis and elastic search didn’t see an explosion of popular forks. Terraform has opentofu, but I haven’t looked in on them in a while.

I don’t believe there are any Atom forks around since Microsoft killed that project after aquiring GitHub.

Also, the actual Visual Studio code you download from their website is NOT fully open source. It contains closed source extensions and configurations.

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