I don't see how this is FOSS...
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| Author | Content |
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| gus3 Jul 05, 2019 4:27 AM EDT |
Java is "maybe FOSS" depending on what level you're looking at it. But Microsoft Visual Studio? What parts of it are FOSS? Or did someone port Visual Studio to X11 on *nix, and I didn't get the news? |
| jdixon Jul 05, 2019 8:06 AM EDT |
> But Microsoft Visual Studio? What parts of it are FOSS? All of it apparently. See https://code.visualstudio.com/license The code is at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode No it's not GPL'ed, or even BSD'ed. This is Microsoft we're talking about. |
| gus3 Jul 05, 2019 12:04 PM EDT |
Wow, that's ugly. And again it's the same "we get all the rewards we want, but you get all the blame when it breaks" line that they were using 20+ years ago. Plus, who knew Visual Studio [Code -- ed., see below] was spyware? |
| penguinist Jul 05, 2019 1:12 PM EDT |
Regarding the license, here is a snippet out of the MS license document linked above:Quoting:Source code for Visual Studio Code is available at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode under the MIT license agreement. MS has certainly done many untrustworthy and devious things, but putting an MIT license on some of its code is not too bad in my opinion. Or maybe I missed some of the fine print. |
| arm Jul 05, 2019 6:54 PM EDT |
Visual Studio Code != Visual Studio |
| jdixon Jul 05, 2019 8:35 PM EDT |
> ...but putting an MIT license on some of its code is not too bad in my opinion. Better than I would have expected, yes. |
| gus3 Jul 05, 2019 10:16 PM EDT |
Uh, woops, yeah. Visual Studio Code != Visual Studio. But ignoring the supposed MIT provenance of the license, it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and not just because it's from.... them. |
| jdixon Jul 06, 2019 12:35 AM EDT |
> it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and not just because it's from.... them. It being from them is more than reason enough for me. It's not like I expect them to honor their word about the license. |
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