Open moonlitpath opened 2 weeks ago
ahydronous
commented
6 days ago You are confusing OSS and FOSS.
Something can be open source but unfree, meaning you can inspect and modify the source code, but you aren't allowed to just do with it whatever you want.
If VSCode wasn't open source, you wouldn't have the multitude of forks that exist.
moonlitpath
commented
5 days ago Something can be open source but unfree, meaning you can inspect and modify the source code, but you aren't allowed to just do with it whatever you want.
You're confusing Open Source and Source-Available. Please read the definition of open source. In the context of this situation, there's no difference between OSS and FOSS/FLOSS, by the way.
If VSCode wasn't open source, you wouldn't have the multitude of forks that exist.
Those are not forks of VSCode, they're forks of Code-OSS. And the reason why they exist is because VSCode is not open.
I understand the confusion. This repo is called vscode, but the actual product in it is called Code-OSS, as you can see in the README. Microsoft uses it to build VSCode.
ahydronous
commented
4 days ago Open source in the general language != open source in the technical definition. But I think no one wins with pedantry, so instead for a solution: we can take a page out of Microsoft’s book, who describe VSCode in part with:
Built on open source
We could edit the VSCode description to be
Source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Built on open source.
if that seems agreeable?
moonlitpath
commented
4 days ago Sounds good to me.
Describe the bug
Even though VSCode is built on open source, the app itself is not open.
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Expected behavior
The term "open source" shouldn't be used in the app's description.
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