VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing

Re:VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing by immigrantsheep on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:55AM (#23455474)

I'm curious, and please don't take this as an attack or sarcasm because it's not, it's a genuine question. Do you only use open source software? There is nothing close source on your machines?

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Re:VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing by hardwaresofton on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:51PM (#23458242)

I do not use only open source software, there's definitely closed source software on my machine, nvidia gfx drivers for example.

But I am also not a full on fanatic -- the world is gray, not black & white (for me at least). Since I am familiar with popular good open source tooling in this space, I'm surprised others who might feel the same might compromise at this particular junction, and that was my knee jerk reaction.

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Re:VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing by immigrantsheep on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:13PM (#23459740)

I pretty much agree with you and thank you for your answer.

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Re:VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing by hardwaresofton on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:50AM (#23464939)

no worries :)

I can't say I do as much for the F/OSS community as others out there do but I donate to the authors of the tools I use, the EFF, and Letsencrypt (the amount of value they deliver is insane) from time to time.

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