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

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Post by ihateolives »

monokai_nl wrote: post #58
koakuma-chan wrote: post #32

Nobody is gonna pay for a VSCode theme.

That's untrue. I've created https://monokai.pro , to my knowledge the first commercial theme. It's been going strong for years now. People are willing to pay for nice things. Especially if it takes longer to create it yourself. A theme is more than a list of colors. Monokai Pro contains custom designed icons and color filters too, and some code logic to sync it all up. It needs continued updates, as editors keep evol…

I paid happily for monokai pro vscode since it was a one time payment. However I will not purchase a subscription for jetbrains intellij because per year it'll cost me the same amount as the intellij idea ultimate and that just doesn't seem like a fair price.

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

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Post by kelnos »

School-Cotton wrote: post #42
badrequest wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems utterly absurd to me that anybody should be able to issue a copyright claim on a collection of colors and fonts. Copyrights are issued to logos and slogans, not design systems.

No, trademarks are issued to logos and slogans.

Yes, but many logos are also copyrightable.

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

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Post by koakuma-chan »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #75
weinzierl wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People pay for mere color schemes. https://draculatheme.com/

I paid for Dracula back when I could stare at dark mode for hours. Now I use Monokai Pro Light (paid for this too). Free themes are a dime a dozen. Paid themes means someone's incentivized to keep working on it and adding icons, &c.

No, paid themes are just passive income for their creators, since they get free advertising from IDE marketplaces and it costs them nothing to run. You can google free vscode theme and get hundreds of literally the same thing.

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

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Post by gamedever »

oefrha wrote: post #29
do_not_redeem wrote: post #10

Someone uploaded a replacement, Material Theme (But I Won't Sue You) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=t3dotgg....

The original author seemed to talk a lot about funding development/maintenance, so I got curious about what the hell needs to be maintained. I cloned the https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you repo and had a look. Here's a LoC summary: =============================================================================== Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks ==========================================…

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.

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

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Post by kelnos »

david422 wrote: post #22
ryandrake wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many people who are otherwise functional in society, for whatever reason just can't play well with others when it comes to online communication. This can be true for both software maintainers and users. People can't just leave their emotions at the door and file a bug report or respond to a help request, without including a little personal jab or passive aggressive snipe. Looking at some of those replies to users,…

> So many people who are otherwise functional in society, for whatever reason just can't play well with others when it comes to online communication. So I run a small game that has a couple thousand active users, and part of that is allowing users to chat via written text. The amount of vitriol some users spew just amazes me. If they acted like that in person, I expect they would get punched in the mouth quite often.…

> I also have a suspicion that some of these people are literally mentally ill, and online is basically where they live.

It's certainly reasonable to expect that there are at least some mentally ill people in any decent-sized community, but the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory[0] suggests -- and I agree -- that there are many people who just turn into complete assholes when they are anonymous or semi-anonymous, and can hide behind their computer, tens or hundreds or thousands of miles away from the people they interact with.

I don't know the demographics of your game, but this is especially true of teenagers. (But not exclusively true.)

[0] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...

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

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Post by joshka »

isidorn wrote: post #79

Hi - Isidor here from the VS Code team. A member of the community did a deep security analysis of the extension and found multiple red flags that indicate malicious intent and reported this to us. Our security researchers at Microsoft confirmed this claims and found additional suspicious code. We banned the publisher from the VS Marketplace and removed all of their extensions and uninstalled from all VS Code instance…

Can you please clarify whether the fork also suffers from the same security issues (or engage the fork's owner to ensure that it doesn't https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you)

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

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Post by isidorn »

joshka wrote: post #87
isidorn wrote: post #79

Hi - Isidor here from the VS Code team. A member of the community did a deep security analysis of the extension and found multiple red flags that indicate malicious intent and reported this to us. Our security researchers at Microsoft confirmed this claims and found additional suspicious code. We banned the publisher from the VS Marketplace and removed all of their extensions and uninstalled from all VS Code instance…

Can you please clarify whether the fork also suffers from the same security issues (or engage the fork's owner to ensure that it doesn't https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you )

Thanks for flagging it. Our security researchers will analize it and based on their findings we might remove this one as well.

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

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Post by ande-mnoc »

isidorn wrote: post #79

Hi - Isidor here from the VS Code team. A member of the community did a deep security analysis of the extension and found multiple red flags that indicate malicious intent and reported this to us. Our security researchers at Microsoft confirmed this claims and found additional suspicious code. We banned the publisher from the VS Marketplace and removed all of their extensions and uninstalled from all VS Code instance…

Will Microsoft consider adding a permission model for extensions?

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

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Post by isidorn »

ande-mnoc wrote: post #89
isidorn wrote: post #79

Hi - Isidor here from the VS Code team. A member of the community did a deep security analysis of the extension and found multiple red flags that indicate malicious intent and reported this to us. Our security researchers at Microsoft confirmed this claims and found additional suspicious code. We banned the publisher from the VS Marketplace and removed all of their extensions and uninstalled from all VS Code instance…

Will Microsoft consider adding a permission model for extensions?

This is tracked in this feature request https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116

We do not plan to add a permission model in the next 6 months.

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