Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati...
by jodrellblank on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:09PM
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> "Some parts of VSCode are MIT Licensed - not all of it"
The source code, the editor are. This is like Oracle releasing a proprietary plugin for EMACS and distributing it on Oracle Linux, and someone saying "this is bad, we need FOSS editors!". That wouldn't make EMACS not-FOSS.
(Is it trolling of me to point out that of course the thing people actually want is not the FOSS bit? There are dozens of editors, people want features not ideology)
The source code, the editor are. This is like Oracle releasing a proprietary plugin for EMACS and distributing it on Oracle Linux, and someone saying "this is bad, we need FOSS editors!". That wouldn't make EMACS not-FOSS.
(Is it trolling of me to point out that of course the thing people actually want is not the FOSS bit? There are dozens of editors, people want features not ideology)