mayflower@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoWhich proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?message-squaremessage-square655fedilinkarrow-up1445arrow-down119
arrow-up1426arrow-down1message-squareWhich proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?mayflower@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square655fedilink
minus-squarefidodo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·11 months agoIt’s similar to chrome. Chrome is not open source, its base project chromium is. The VSCode distributable has closed source stuff on top which is mostly telemetry. There’s a purely open source build of VSCode called vscodium.
It’s similar to chrome. Chrome is not open source, its base project chromium is. The VSCode distributable has closed source stuff on top which is mostly telemetry. There’s a purely open source build of VSCode called vscodium.