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

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Run three flavours of Linux at home and love Microsoft. Why does everything have to be in opposition?

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would anyone on Linux use VSCode??????

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[–] FairLight@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We got to be mature. Microsoft (and many other corporations) are a problem due to their unfair practices. But this is not a moral war against them, when we are not the problem. If we have vscodium, which is opensource and it has telemetry removed, which is the problem?

I would be happy if they didn't made the internet a worse place, if they weren't greedy billionaire assholes, if they didn't have a monopoly, but vscode does not affect my sleep.

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[–] aleq@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I hate Windows and dislike a lot of Microsoft products, but I think we're way past Microsoft being the bad guy. They kinda like Linux now, and probably do more good than bad for it. There are much worse companies in tech, I think Microsoft's worst crimes as of late is creating Teams and being boring.

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[–] WuTang@lemmy.ninja -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

nope, I deeply hate microsoft and I don't use their products. Millennials don't know the history.

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