Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

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This post delves into the intentional design of Visual Studio Code that leads to ecosystem fragmentation. It highlights the issues with Microsoft's data collection practices and explores the legal risks associated with using non-official distributions like VSCodium and OpenVSCodeServer. The post argues that Microsoft's approach

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visual studio code is now seven years oldvscodium is an oss desktop distributionopenvscodeserver is an oss server distributionIDEs that are not subscriptions are a dying breedGitHub is a white label for existing Microsoft techan ecosystem that is designed to fractureokay, so how do we fix this?

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