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Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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Re: Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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Post by ghuntley »

minhazm wrote: post #7

I couldn't find an announcement from Microsoft about this, but it did happen in this commit: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/822f995357f725216...

Yup. If you switch to the ‘Insiders’ channel (account settings panel on the dashboard) on Gitpod then you will be running these bits on Gitpod.

Re: Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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Post by pfranz »

msoad wrote: post #4
waterglassFull wrote: post #2

What's up with the title? Assuming they're not sending a cake due to covid and remote working etc - makes it seem very clickbaitish.

Maybe related to Firefox/Chrome cake history...

I believe that tradition was started in 2006 when Microsoft send Firefox dev team a cake

https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-moz...

Like others mentioned, this story seems to be reference to Gitpod sending GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces.

https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake

Re: Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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Post by rektide »

ushakov wrote: post #10

i really like Gitpod as a company, but i'm wondering what's their survival plan as they're competing with Microsoft?

continue to drive open source. continue to believe there's a non-proprietary community worth investing in. continue moving the ball forward & making microsoft also have to keep open sourcing.

it's less about what's their survival plan, and more about what the rest of all of us are going to do with vscode taking over the planet.

Re: Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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Post by kodah »

ushakov wrote: post #10

i really like Gitpod as a company, but i'm wondering what's their survival plan as they're competing with Microsoft?

GitHub isn't the only VCS provider. There's GitLab and SourceHut and there will likely be more in the future as standards coalesce. That's where open source thrives: strong and proven standards. Once VCS hosting becomes fairly standardized then Open Source will take over and the innovation cycle will start again.

Re: Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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Post by manquer »

ushakov wrote: post #10

i really like Gitpod as a company, but i'm wondering what's their survival plan as they're competing with Microsoft?

Not that different from gitlab? There are some (enough) Enterprise needs that MS is unable or uninterested to do.

Usually stuff like on-premise( at lower price than what MS) or significant customization or some features/extensibility.

At MS scale these are not viable things to do, but smaller companies don't have the same concerns.

Also getting bought by MS or another large player is always an option.

Re: Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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Post by phillipcarter »

ushakov wrote: post #10

i really like Gitpod as a company, but i'm wondering what's their survival plan as they're competing with Microsoft?

Another flavor of the "focused startup vs. big company portfolio" story. A small, scrappy team can do incredible things and find product-market fit despite having a gargantuan competitor. A big company can lose the plot with big staffing overheads, internal politics, and being tugged in a million different directions by users/customers. Of course a big company can also be laser-focused and leverage their vast cash sums and engineering weight to dominate the space. But in my experience, that's pretty rare.

Re: Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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Post by guessmyname »

waterglassFull wrote: post #2

What's up with the title? Assuming they're not sending a cake due to covid and remote working etc - makes it seem very clickbaitish.

If anyone is curious, user “tomvault” submitted this post with the following title:

> Microsoft open-sourcing VS Code Server and Gitpod won’t send them a cake

… which was later changed to:

> Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

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