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dschuetz·

You're using VS Code instead of Open Source IDEs? No sympathy whatsoever. None.

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I know you're a troll, but just so you don't have a chance to misinform.

VS Code is open source. It's MIT licensed. You can get the source code here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

If we're being overly pedantic, the Visual Studio Code that you download from https://code.visualstudio.com/ isn't actually open source. It's analogous to Google Chrome with the source on GitHub analogous to Chromium.

Explanation from Microsoft employee: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...

Visual Studio Code license: https://code.visualstudio.com/license

Official vscode faq - licensing section https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_location

Vscode is open source technically but not the binary they distribute as well as plugins store and telemetry. Bunch of other little parts as well.

Though, if you used your package manager to update. I don't think the posted issue would have happened.

Try https://vscodium.com/ for a fully open source version

VS Code is an open source IDE

VS Codium is an open source IDE. Binaries of VS Code, distributed by Microsoft, contain additions with telemetry and god knows what else, so for all intents and purposes, they should not be considered open source.

[citation needed]

Telemetry is plainly visible in the VS Code source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/8ffcb49f4fbeb250405...

That's a good point, additional items could be included, though the installer code seems to be included in the source code: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/build/win32/...

Looks like gpm commented with more context on this and your comment is likely still more correct than my response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23019121

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

MIT Licenced

Am I missing something?

Yes: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4288/is-micro...

Late reply but "With the exception of branding and configuration values, this open source base is identical to the built software product we offer" is about as integrated into open source as you can possibly expect a company with trademarks and branding like MS to adopt, right?

What a rude thing to say.

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