Re:VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing
by Wowfunhappy on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:10PM
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> This is not an EEE trap, this is normal bureaucracy for an organization the size of MS. [...] They have the same problem with the C# debugger: owned by a proprietary team, can't get permission to open source it.
> It is extremely hard to open source "some" or "most" of your code, especially in a company whose USP is tight integration between pieces. The legal quagmires are horrendous. A tool that crosses so many lines, like an integrated IDE, are backed into positions like this.
Whatever the underlying cause, this strikes me as a perfectly good reason to be skeptical of Microsoft's forays into open source. It doesn't really matter what their intentions are—what you're describing is a company that can't do open source properly.
> It is extremely hard to open source "some" or "most" of your code, especially in a company whose USP is tight integration between pieces. The legal quagmires are horrendous. A tool that crosses so many lines, like an integrated IDE, are backed into positions like this.
Whatever the underlying cause, this strikes me as a perfectly good reason to be skeptical of Microsoft's forays into open source. It doesn't really matter what their intentions are—what you're describing is a company that can't do open source properly.