I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

  • glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You put your ability to work efficiently into the hands of Microsoft. If they stop development or go into a direction like google did with ad-handling in their browser, or unity with their payment-methods, or does whatever a greedy company does, your tool is broken.

    The time and effort you put into a piece of software is valuable. And deciding to put it into a Microsoft-product instead of a true free piece of software weakens the competition. Monopolies in the making shouldn’t be supported.

    All the add-ons that are made for this Microsoft-product are wasted time, as soon as Microsoft fucks up - and they will. This time could have been spent in better ways.

    And my last point why using VScode/ium is a problem is that it is advertisement for Microsoft. It could be a gateway to look into other Microsoft products for young developers. If you recommend them a FOSS tool instead, you might win some for the idea of a more FOSS world.

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      VSCodium is FOSS, though. If Microsoft pulls some fuckery, somebody will just fork it, and the people who care can use that fork instead.

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        This ‘somebody’ has to be a great team of software developers to keep VSCodium alive, if Microsoft abandons the project. I wouldn’t bet on it. Would you financially support those developers?