On: VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binarie...

[moron4hire]

So sneaky, embracing and extending open source software... That they wrote. Any day now. Gonna extinguish it. Cuz... Why again?

[always2slow → moron4hire]

EEE is a long term play. The 'Why?' is to secure their monopoly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

[moron4hire → always2slow]

Their monopoly of... Text editors... The thing every developer and their sibling implements at some point in their career.

[always2slow → moron4hire]

No, they want to monopolize computing. And actually, yeah they do kind of have a monopoly on text editing, everyone who isn't a programmer uses Microsoft Word. Which they did by using EEE. You could import different formats into Word but good luck exporting it.

[Sirenos → moron4hire]

Let's not pretend a weekend hobby text editor is anywhere near the feature set of VSCode.

[digisign → moron4hire]

And yet every younger developer is encouraged and peer-pressured to use it.

And they bought github of course. MS has outsmarted (almost) everyone again.

[fartcannon → moron4hire]

Vendor lock-in is real, and powerful.