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Re:Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Comes to Red Hat Summit by wuschel on Thursday May 09, 2019 @02:36AM (#19865908)
... except perhaps for the Microsoft telemetry that is active in the distributed VScode binaries [1]?

To quote user ilaksh in this thread: "They will set it up so that it will _seem_ like your are developing for Linux, but due to some extensions or technicality it will only work on _Linux inside of Windows_.

So from my perspective it is amazing that people think this is a good thing for Linux."

There are good historic reasons to distrust M$.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18209082

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Re:Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Comes to Red Hat Summit by kermitismyhero on Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:13AM (#19866828)
I did see and disable the telemetry option in the preferences the first time I used it, and so far it seems to behave itself and not quietly re-enable telemetry.
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