GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by thiht on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:13PM (#44870059)

These are extensions. No one is preventing OSS communities from developing their own remote dev, Python, and C++ extensions. The VSCode extension API allows it. There are actually some efforts being made to do it.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by sdenton4 on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:18PM (#44870109)

Ah, but coming hot on their heels are the embracions and extingushions!

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by yencabulator on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:16PM (#44870086)

You're moving the goalposts! I am responding to

> I honestly don't remember when they tried to snare someone to use proprietary extensions to something open.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by fc417fc802 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:07AM (#44872947)

But ... they literally did that here? I don't think it's malicious in this case. In fact I think they're giving away genuinely useful tools here with no obvious downsides to their use.

But I do think it qualifies.

Bit like the example of Martin Luther King being a criminal.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by nothrabannosir on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:52AM (#44872515)

You’re describing the E in EEE

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by croes on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:33AM (#44874946)

I think it's not about the extensions but the market place.

You can't use the MS extensions with VS Codium, you are forced to use VS Code.

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