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
#2Euphemistically, 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
#3What’s the motivation to do so? Removing telemetry and adding another? Or what’s the other features were added/removed?
Re: Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves
#4What’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?
Re: Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves
#5I don't get it. Reddit's OP shared a screenshot along with an automatic translation that says "independent research and development". This is not an authorship claim by any means.
Re: Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves
#6What’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.
Re: Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves
#7What’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.
Re: Chinese state-owned company copied VS Code, claimed its developed by themselves
#8> Chinese state-owned company
As China is a country with a communist government, isn't that redundant?