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Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves

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Re: Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves

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Euphemistically, one might say that different culture approach the concept of intellectual property differently. In that context it's just a misinterpretation of the MIT licence: permission to fork and claim ownership taken to mean: permission to fork and claim authorship. :-)

Re: Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves

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What’s the motivation to do so? Removing telemetry and adding another? Or what’s the other features were added/removed?

The reason for forking the source code, or the reason for claiming they are the creators ?

Forking it, but assuming that claim is also true, I would be interested to know why as well, since I can’t think of a reason why would someone go in all that hassle (and maintaining it) just to change an icon.

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What’s the motivation to do so? Removing telemetry and adding another? Or what’s the other features were added/removed?

It may be defrauding funds, Chinese domestic developers are also mocking and condemning the company's behavior.