People when a piece of software is source-available but not strictly OSS:
outragePeople when Microsoft pulls this trick (core repo OSS, most useful things around it are full of DRM and legal traps): silence
The hypocrisy is really astounding and in a way, MS has managed to pacify even the strongest FOSS advocates by offering something which looks like OSS but it actually isn't. This is on par with claiming that a repo is GPL but the build API keys are not. (Yes, this also happened elsewhere, and not even in a corporate project at all!)
The Open Source Definition is hilariously unfit for purpose in 2024 because it allows shenanigans like this.
If you enjoy a rabbithole, look at how much DRM there is in Pylance (another extension that MS has locked down): https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1641
The short summary is that MS uses multiple, constantly changing methods of DRM to make it impossible for people to patch out the "only official VSCode" check from the Pylance extension.
This is very clearly malicious.
People when Microsoft pulls this trick (core repo OSS, most useful things around it are full of DRM and legal traps): silence
The hypocrisy is really astounding and in a way, MS has managed to pacify even the strongest FOSS advocates by offering something which looks like OSS but it actually isn't. This is on par with claiming that a repo is GPL but the build API keys are not. (Yes, this also happened elsewhere, and not even in a corporate project at all!)
The Open Source Definition is hilariously unfit for purpose in 2024 because it allows shenanigans like this.
If you enjoy a rabbithole, look at how much DRM there is in Pylance (another extension that MS has locked down): https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1641
The short summary is that MS uses multiple, constantly changing methods of DRM to make it impossible for people to patch out the "only official VSCode" check from the Pylance extension. This is very clearly malicious.