Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Post by wolvesechoes » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 10:35 AM UTC

mort96 wrote: post #201

jeroenhd wrote: post #168

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What's the problem for people who just use VSCode, exactly? The software still does what people want for free, which is what 99% of VS Code users use the software for anyway. People who care about open source-ness have their own extensions to replace their proprietary C++ tooling, or they can use an open source alternative like Eclipse. I remember when basic features that come for free in VS Code cost thousands of do…

For people who see VS Code as just a decent gratis text editor, there's no problem. For people who care, to some degree, about using an open source tool, for whom the marketing that VS Code is open source played a role in their choice of using it, it should matter. And it matters that other projects (think Platform IO and more) choose VS Code as a platform to build on top of, and they get away with it because "it's o…

Post by tialaramex » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 10:56 AM UTC

hnfong wrote: post #155

fsloth wrote: post #138

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That’s not how companies see it. From MS point of view it’s Cursor doing it to them . The way copyright and other rights to your IP you claim to have work in practice, is you need to enforce those claims or loose the rights.

> The way copyright and other rights to your IP you claim to have work in practice, is you need to enforce those claims or loose the rights. Generally only applies to trademarks, not copyrights. In most English speaking countries copyright is a proprietary right and you don't lose it if you don't actively enforce it. But there could be time limits to a plaintiff bringing a civil case to court (usually a couple years)…

Post by lillecarl » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 11:03 AM UTC

ryao wrote: post #208

Am I the only person using tmux+vim+cscope+bash+gcc as a development environment? I do not see the need for these GUIs. I also can develop software from just about anywhere as I only need to SSH into a machine with these things (+git) installed. There are no hostile license terms either. As an added bonus, this setup is excellent for pair programming. Just use voice chat via signal or anything else and have the other…

Post by lillecarl » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 11:07 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #58

datadrivenangel wrote: post #34

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Apparently VSCode doesn't allow extensions to do the same amount of integration as the Cursor people want...

Extensions aren't sandboxed... You can literally do anything. Maybe against the store rules tho, dunno.

Post by brookst » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 11:32 AM UTC

tialaramex wrote: post #213

hnfong wrote: post #155

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> The way copyright and other rights to your IP you claim to have work in practice, is you need to enforce those claims or loose the rights. Generally only applies to trademarks, not copyrights. In most English speaking countries copyright is a proprietary right and you don't lose it if you don't actively enforce it. But there could be time limits to a plaintiff bringing a civil case to court (usually a couple years)…

It doesn't apply to trademarks either but it's convenient to insist that trademark "enforcement" is required if you're either a trademark lawyer looking for more clients or you're an aggressive litigant and you want an excuse so people will forget you're a monster. Oh the Disney corporation had to sue the village primary school because their play used a trademarked name for a folk tale everybody knows about... it's n…