[Suppafly]

>Everyone is reading this as intentional anti-competitive practices.

Even if it is anti-competitive, I don't care. Why should VS Code have to support alternative AI assistants in their software? I understand why people would want that, but I'm not sure why microsoft has some sort of ethical or legal burden to support it. Plus it's open source, competitors can take it for free and add their own co-pilots if they want.

[colechristensen]

>Why should VS Code have to support alternative AI assistants in their software?

Because of the dominant position of Microsoft in various markets.

[Ar-Curunir]

I’m no fan of MS, but how are they leveraging their dominance in, say, OS to create dominance in editors? AFAIK it’s not like VS code is bundled with Windows.

[Mountain_Skies]

Does Microsoft have a monopoly (or large enough market share) on text editors?

[colechristensen]

It's hard to find a good answer here but there's some strong indication that Microsoft is pretty dominant with code editors.

[thiht]

> Plus it's open source, competitors can take it for free and add their own co-pilots if they want.

They can and they do. The process is working.

[daedrdev]

I think you’ve made a good point here, its not like they force you to have vscode. I feel like it wont be super popular here thoguh