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It's free software in letter, but not in spirit. True free software doesn't lock out non-official builds for zero technical reasons.
by correct-horse 2y ago
It's free software in letter, but not in spirit. True free software doesn't lock out non-official builds for zero technical reasons.
- fragmede 2y agowhat about vscodium? for that reason, what was iceweasel?
- nicce 2y agoThere is some sort of vendor lock-in VSCode. It at least used to be extremely difficult to make GitHub Copilot to work with codium. There is something closed source in VSCode that makes the difference. It was so difficult to maintain, that I ended up switching to VSCode. So the ”lock-in” worked.
- janice1999 2y agovscodium and VSCode forks are legally prevented from using the normal VSCode extension site. They have their own: https://open-vsx.org/ https://open-vsx.org/ As far as I know Chrome forks are not blocked from using extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
- n_plus_1_acc 2y ago*according to microsoft
- bigstrat2003 2y agoThe software is free, the extension site is not. I agree that's a shitty practice by MS, but it doesn't somehow make VSCode not free software.