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You always begin mild. Ratchet up slowly. Then when someone complains roll back a little or plead ignorance. Keep repeating until complainers leave to go elsewhere. Keep the majority of users. Repeat until "done".

> I’m actually kind of surprised it took Microsoft this long to push back against the VSCode clones

Why would Microsoft push back against VS Code forks? I thought "Microsoft <3 Open Source", is that no longer true now when people forgot about the old Microsoft?

It's funny how our standards for MS are like "their latest user-hostile move was malicious to a very reasonable degree, so it's all good."

Microsoft: We love open source!

Microsoft: No wait, not like that!

The clones never used Microsoft's marketplace, most comments here are misinformed or falsely assuming malicious intent. Classic HN

They don't use the marketplace directly but people do download and manually put them into place in the clones. This seems like a clear swipe at that behavior.