<story><title>VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code</title><url>https://vscodium.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justsomeguy123</author><text>So glad this exists. It took people quite some time to group up for this.&lt;p&gt;I find it... borderline immoral to have an open source product and then have binaries contain telemetry and other stuff that&amp;#x27;s not in the main tree.&lt;p&gt;But, hey, we couldn&amp;#x27;t expect Microsoft not to muddy the waters a bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>The model Microsoft is following here is called the &amp;quot;open core&amp;quot; model, where the core part of a product is open source, and then some extensions to it are proprietary. It&amp;#x27;s the same model that Chrome itself, that VSCodium is built upon, operates with. And also Android.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s their choice fundamentally. They pay for all the VS code developers, so from a moral standpoint, they don&amp;#x27;t have to release source code at all (outside of general immorality of proprietary software but that&amp;#x27;s something different). They still decide to release it and IMO they should be lauded for open sourcing at least parts, and enabling DFSG-compatible rebuilds to exist.</text></comment>
<story><title>VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code</title><url>https://vscodium.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justsomeguy123</author><text>So glad this exists. It took people quite some time to group up for this.&lt;p&gt;I find it... borderline immoral to have an open source product and then have binaries contain telemetry and other stuff that&amp;#x27;s not in the main tree.&lt;p&gt;But, hey, we couldn&amp;#x27;t expect Microsoft not to muddy the waters a bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fathyb</author><text>Just to clarify, the code for the telemetry is open, it&amp;#x27;s the configuration with the endpoints that&amp;#x27;s not on the main tree.</text></comment>