Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Re:Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extensio... by hedora on Thursday April 24, 2025 @08:27PM (#43788978)

Yeah.

I think project governance matters more than license, and the BSDs are great examples.

Having said that, I’ve soured on the GPL. V3 more-or-less bans companies from selling you hardware that runs free software, but lets Google, Meta, etc use the software to expand their cloud-based monopolies where surveillance capitalism and enshittification have won out.

AGPL or BSL seem much better if you want free as in freedom. BSD and Apache at least don’t force your software off of machines that end users control.

Yes, BSL is not open (TM) or free (TM) or whatever. It’s still better IMHO, since it at least has some path to revenue for the developers.

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Re:Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extensio... by pas on Friday April 25, 2025 @02:23PM (#43796971)

Are there AGPL or BSL success stories? (Ie. projects that started as such and became/remained sustainable?)

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Re:Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extensio... by znpy on Saturday April 26, 2025 @07:00PM (#43808019)

The whole Grafana ecosystem afaik. They are thriving as a company and they don’t risk amazon or some other company coming in and selling a forked version of their software (see redis/valkey, elasticsearch/opensearch, etc)

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Re:Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extensio... by TuxSH on Sunday April 27, 2025 @12:52PM (#43813263)

A little off-topic but a few companies (e.g. Aerospike) use AGPL in the free versions of their paid products to avoid getting leeched off.

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