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Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by TZubiri »

weinzierl wrote: post #50
bad_user wrote: post #34

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There's nothing wrong with building proprietary software of a couple of thousand lines of code, including themes. And people should be able to ask for money in exchange for their work. What's wrong is the bait and switch, as these projects end up being popular because of their FOSS nature.

"What's wrong is the bait and switch,[..]" Morally wrong, legally not so much. If it is under a permissive license (and it was MIT originally as others have pointed out) you can always cut a proprietary version. That doesn't take away the right to use the permissively licensed code of course.

Changing the historical agreement is fraud.

If he edited the repo history to edit the licence that is.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by f272529 »

theobr wrote: post #102
theobr wrote: post #98

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Hi, owner of the fork here. I did a thorough combing of the code base when I forked. Just did another audit and still not seeing anything suspicious. Gutting all of the opencollective and changelog code to be 1000% sure.

The only potential risk was the use of sanity to render a changelog. I didn't want to risk it, so I gutted that and a ton of other stuff. Just published a new, stripped down version. https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you/p...

Ok, but did you remove something that explicitly appeared malicious? This is a key detail that I am not seeing in your comments or commit messages.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by notpushkin »

School-Cotton wrote: post #44
ruined wrote: post #25

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git is a blockchain

No it’s not. A blockchain is a Merkle tree whose canonical “master branch” is agreed upon by everyone and difficult or impossible to change (e.g. due to PoW or a similar mechanism). A git repository is just a Merkle tree.

A Git repository is a Merkle tree whose canonical “master branch” is agreed upon by everyone and difficult or impossible to change (because people want to collaborate on a project). If you try to rewrite history and people don’t agree with you, they would just fork the project and get on with their day.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by ryukoposting »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #32

Nobody is gonna pay for a VSCode theme.

I could see the case for paying for a theme that provides its own icons and works across multiple tools and goes out of its way to support tools that I use. If anyone makes skins for Segger Ozone, I've never heard of them.

I'm comfortable working without any syntax highlighting at all. It's not that I go to the effort of turning it off, I just don't really care that it's there. I used to use Sam as my daily editor - got used to plain black text pretty quick. It's all a matter of preference.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by GlacierFox »

ukFxqnLa2sBSBf6 wrote: post #119
theobr wrote: post #109

Hey y'all, I made the most prominent fork of this extension "Material Theme (But I Won't Sue You)" The maintainer went off the deep end last year. He pulled the (originally apache 2) source offline, then started threatening to sue people for hosting alternative versions, including them in other IDEs, etc. Genuine lunatic. Out of an abundance of precaution, I've taken the following action on my fork: 1. I have the VS…

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Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by nsonha »

miyuru wrote: post #41
bad_user wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's nothing wrong with building proprietary software of a couple of thousand lines of code, including themes. And people should be able to ask for money in exchange for their work. What's wrong is the bait and switch, as these projects end up being popular because of their FOSS nature.

He had raised about $7.6k total funding using opencollective. https://opencollective.com/material-theme that's pretty good, especially for a vscode theme.

Pretty good for a material design theme. The most boring, over used yet ugly and style-over-function design.

Re: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

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Post by elzbardico »

phyzix5761 wrote: post #91
gamedever wrote: post #84

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it's a problem. As soon as it became easy to ask for money via Patreon or githib sponsorship, etc... tons of people are going to try to get some for minimal effort. It's just the nature of the beast.

I think effort is irrelevant. Value is what we really look at when deciding what price to pay. It doesn't matter to most people if it took someone a 1000 hours to produce a loaf of bread. They're not going to pay 100x the price of the bread that took 10 hours to produce. Especially, if the products are mostly indistinguishable.

Partially in jest, but have you forgotten about the luxury market?
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