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Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
By the end of this blog post, I hope more folks understand that by using anything other than the official distribution of Visual Studio Code provided by Microsoft (or GitHub via Codespaces) that it is easy to expose yourself or your company to legal risks similar to incorrectly using Docker Desktop or the Oracle JDK... Members of the free software community became concerned by the usage of the proprietary license and launched the VSCodium project as a community-driven, freely-licensed desktop distribution of Visual Studio Code in binary form. If Gitpod, GitLab, Datacoves, OpenBB, Foam, et al were to attempt to bypass these restrictions by offering ms-dotnettools.csharp post move to LSP Host via their service, then they would receive a very nasty legal email from Microsoft's lawyers.
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