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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 week ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 180 points 1 week ago (28 children)

A few things to point out:

Microsoft created this extension and pays money to develop it
Despite that, they give it to programmers for free. It is still free of charge.
They explicitly said that using it outside of their products is forbidden (according to article: at least 5 years ago), they just didn't enforce it
Someone (here: Cursor developers), despite that, used it in their products and started to make money from it

What exactly are you mad at? When will programming community finally understand that Microsoft is not a non-profit company and its primary purpose is to make money?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The problem is that they're killing competition. Treating a company with the market dominance of Microsoft like a normal company would be fatal for humanity. Because they are eliminating innovation by Cursor and they do not need to do this to finance their own innovation. Effectively, humanity gets less innovation by Microsoft doing this.

[–] recall519@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But Microsoft developed it in the first place. It's perfectly within their rights to pull it and developers making money off of their work isn't bad either. I love a good pitchfork to corporate, but this is honestly fine.

[–] obbeel 1 points 17 hours ago

I think owning a platform like GitHub and acting like you can profit out of your code (not your product) isn't good news.

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