A license term was not respected; the license allows to use, modify, etc. but not to remove the copyright message or change the copyright to Microsoft.
It's simply ignorance. For example, out of the 600 comments in this post, yours is the only one which was able to clearly articulate what actually happened. And it's all the way at the bottom. It goes to show the headspace most developers are in. This mistake will be repeated by many others until the end of time.
EU Directive to mandate the creation of a Truth and Democracy Committee that will run a social media platform financed by a EU-wide tax on everything "obviously not good for you".
It’s not. Its core is open source, but the actual build that is branded VS Code and that people download is not. I’m not even referring to many of the key extensions that many people use, such as the SSH remote and Pylance, which themselves are proprietary.
If you want to use only open source code, you need a rebuild like VSCodium.
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