VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
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Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#2I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#3I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
For me, it's more about telemetry than licensing.
Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#4I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
Exactly. I like the idea of having VSCodium as an option but I don’t have an urging need to use this fork since just removing a license and telemetry endpoints doesn’t really add any value compared to the official package.
Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#5I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
For use in FLOSS distributions like Ubunutu or Debian. Like how Firefox got rebranded as [Iceweasel/Icecat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat) so their logo/branding didn't have to be distributed by FLOSS distributions.
Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#6I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
For me, it's more about telemetry than licensing.
AFAIK telemetry can be disabled with "telemetry.enableTelemetry": false
Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#7I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
For me, it's more about telemetry than licensing.
Doesn't it suffice to set the following in your User Settings?
"telemetry.enableTelemetry": false
Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#8I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
Actually I think this would be rather useful to have.
I don't use VS personally, but if I understand correctly their binaries are not free even though users can build their own from a free source code. If this "VSCodium" simplifies the building process, and also removes some anti-features in the process such as telemetry, I think it has value.
Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#9I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
Exactly. I like the idea of having VSCodium as an option but I don’t have an urging need to use this fork since just removing a license and telemetry endpoints doesn’t really add any value compared to the official package.
It doesn't look like a fork to me. It only seems to be a build script for building VS (and possibly remove some anti-features).
Re: VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
#10I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
Actually I think this would be rather useful to have. I don't use VS personally, but if I understand correctly their binaries are not free even though users can build their own from a free source code. If this "VSCodium" simplifies the building process, and also removes some anti-features in the process such as telemetry, I think it has value.
? VSCode is definitely free in the "beer" sense.