Comment by sha666sum | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sha666sum | Hacker News Reader

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Even when Microsoft does FOSS, they do it in a way that has "proprietary" written all over it. I'm quite excited about writing C# on Linux, but slapping a MIT license on code you release is only half the deal.

Yesterday I decided to write some C# code on Linux. That's easy, I thought: VSCode and .NET Core can both be found in Arch's repos these days. I just have to set an environment variable and edit VSCode's settings to disable telemetry... But alas! It turns out that I need to install Microsoft's proprietary release of Visual Studio Code because the C# debugger is only licensed to work with Visual Studio Code

Here's the Github issue about it, providing a bit of context and a lot of useless discussion: https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

I am hopeful .NET/C# will support[1][2][3] *BSD operating systems soon.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/labels/os-freebsd

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/labels/os-freebsd

[3] https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/labels/os-netbsd

VSCode and Visual Studio Code are the same thing, so what do you mean? Are you saying the repo is not providing the actual VSCode?

The arch linux package registry has a version of VSCode available, that is build without MS telemetry/branding. I guess that's what parent is using.

Because VSCode and Visual Studio Code isn't the same thing.

The actual binary releases of Visual Studio Code

https://code.visualstudio.com/license

And here's the license for VSCode itself

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

It says at the top of the page you linked:

"This license applies to the Visual Studio Code product. Source Code for Visual Studio Code is available at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode under the MIT license agreement..."

Source code and final product have different licenses but VSCode and Visual Studio Code refer to the same thing. If you're using the official release channel then you should have the final product that is licensed to use the debugger.

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