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Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code by cercatrova on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:54PM (#24561793)
Because VSCode is under a permissive license (MIT) rather than a copyleft license (GPL), Microsoft can add any proprietary extensions it wants. "Permissive" licenses are only permissive for the creator and other developers (only sometimes), not for the end user.
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Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code by nl on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @01:53AM (#24563422)
Since MS is the author, they could put it under GPL and still do this. They own the copyright.
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Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code by z3t4 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:28AM (#24563648)
In order to contribute you have to sign away your rights, so it's only permissive to MS. It's a pervasive view on open source, cheered by sockpuppets, making people believe MS is now a open source company.
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