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Haha, please enlighten me. Let's see what open source license Microsoft picked for their generous efforts to restore socioeconomic equality:

https://code.visualstudio.com/license

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From that page there's a trail of links to this explanation for the licensing: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...

TLDR: Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft-branded product that is made available to users under a Microsoft-y license. However, the "vscode" project containing almost all code for that product is open-sourced under MIT.

Are you serious? You have to link me to a GitHub issue where they still don't clearly explain their license, and then if you read the comments you can see tons of other concerns that they never address. It is almost like they want to keep spying on you and exploiting.. hmm, strange. Weird that they have so many trade offs for privacy always. I see small two-person teams doing more work and good for software than mega-corporations like Microsoft.

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