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How an opensource project is in a big trouble because it have close source alternative ? It's the other way around. As soon as close source alternative aren't as customizable as opensource ones they will come looking opensource alternative and how it grows.

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Microsoft is in full Embrace, Extend, Extinguish mode.

This includes: tie ins in VS Code not available to third party extensions; closed source Python and C# features not available to third party forks of VS Code; features like Live Share and ML powered completions; and Gitpod can't use VS Code without forking it or violating the trademark.

Distribution. GitHub Codespaces will pop up everywhere on GitHub. The experience will be seamless. It’s like Slack vs MS Teams. Yeah Slack is doing fine. But MS Teams is winning in terms of users.

MS Teams is not winning the users; it is rather winning IT managers since it seems to be cheap/free. It is among the worst piece of software I ever had to use. It's laggy as hell, and nothing is presented in a logical way.

I am not disagreeing about MS Teams being an inferior product. But, the fact remains that MS Teams is outpacing Slack by a wide margin [0]. The author argues that similar things will happen to Gitpod.

[0] https://www.bemopro.com/hs-fs/hubfs/slack%20vs.%20teams.jpg?...

It's not about opensource vs closesource, it's about free *service* based on opensouce vs free *service* based on closesource.

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