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> Reminds me of how Microsoft dumped Atom (and then fauxpen-sourced VSCode before dumping the last remnants of Atom).

I'm confused by this. Microsoft released the VS Code source in 2015, long before they acquired GitHub in 2018 and sunset Atom in 2022.

They moved Atom into de-facto maintenance mode much earlier than that, when VSCode was much less fauxpen-source than it is now.

Just repeating "fauxpen source" doesn't mean anything to me. What actual change are you referring to?

A couple points in time:

Pylance, installed by default, won't open source. Microsoft keeps calling VSCode open source. https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4

To add to the list, the c/c++ extensions, remote ssh, remote containers and intellicode are also closed source.