Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.
The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.
This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft’s vscode repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration.
The code of VSCode is open source but not the binaries. Codium tries to fix that.
Its like a less capable Emacs wannabe that is designed to frustrate you when nothing works in examples using proprietary crap in VS Code, then leverage your familiarity to get you to give in to using VS Code and its MASSIVE stalkerware stream of constant information across your network with no rhyme or reason for that traffic to exist.
I don’t quite follow what this is. Is it a from scratch implementation of the vscode experience or a fork which has removed propriety and telemetry?
The latter: https://vscodium.com/
Neither. Taken from Codium Github :
The code of VSCode is open source but not the binaries. Codium tries to fix that.
Codium also used an open extension marketplace. Microsoft’s cannot be used except by Microsoft products.
VS Code is the epitome of fauxpen source.
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No, it’s not a fork.
Its like a less capable Emacs wannabe that is designed to frustrate you when nothing works in examples using proprietary crap in VS Code, then leverage your familiarity to get you to give in to using VS Code and its MASSIVE stalkerware stream of constant information across your network with no rhyme or reason for that traffic to exist.