Per the release blog post (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launch), the goal of OpenVSCode Server is to make as few changes to VS Code as possible to run it on the server, while code-server makes more opinionated changes:
> Unlike other attempts, this project is based on a minimal set of changes and uses the same architecture that powers both Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces at scale.
> Unlike other attempts, this project is based on a minimal set of changes and uses the same architecture that powers both Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces at scale.