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Re:VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing by owl57 on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:17AM (#23456654)
Of course, that was the theory from the start: they made VSCode to get developer attention and nudge them towards Microsoft cloud. Fine. How does it explain why «those extensions are closed source and explicitly check that they're running on only VSCode»?
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Re:VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing by jhanschoo on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:46AM (#23457588)
I have no idea. My first guess is that they contain libraries that they are not allowed to distribute as source, and that they have only been tested on VSCode.
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