The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

Re:The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary by skohan on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:05AM (#24048082)

I would argue that it's not about intent. The most reliable way to predict the behavior of a corporation is to expect them to take the action which will optimally help their bottom line.

So for instance, the team building VSCode might be the most altruistic FOSS diehards on the planet, but that doesn't matter if the people managing them see an opportunity to leverage their work to profit MS at the expense of developers.

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Re:The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary by jmeister on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:15AM (#24048144)

Optimally help their stock price*, which is supposed to factor in longer term effects including developer community goodwill etc.

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Re:The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary by skohan on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:18AM (#24048163)

If you have compelling evidence of corporations choosing long-term "good will" over short term profits I would be very interested to see it

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Re:The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary by john_miller on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:26AM (#24048839)

every generous return policy by a shop

every PR action

free(as in beer) software (e.g. visual studio)

charitable donations (e.g. google to wikipedia)

not pressing charges for rampant cracking (photoshop used by students/children)

diversity photo ops/hiring practices

non-firing of incompetent employees

free workshops or tours for the public/children

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Re:The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary by naikrovek on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:38PM (#24055266)

Those are almost all tax deductions or are required by law.

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