On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 11:11:01AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > They also distribute binary versions that may or not be built from an > identical code base and contain other (non-free) license clauses. The > differences are discussed[2] in Github. It is suggested that the > difference between the source and binary version is like the difference > between chromium and chrome. > > Various people have commented about the product sending[3] telemetry > data to the upstream but it is not clear if that happens if it is built > from the source but presumably that can be patched.
This might have changed since I last looked into it, but last I checked the only difference between the OSS project and the MS-distributed builds is a list of URLs for extension repositor(y|ies), telemetry server(s), etc. Source builds will likely not have the extension repo or anything online, unlike Chrome/Chromium where Chromium still has access to the webstore and Google integration. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-161792005, though things may have changed since 2015 when that was written. -- Zebulon McCorkle Email: zebmccor...@zeb.fun IRC: - zebmccorkle@Freenode - zebmccorkle@OFTC - zeb@EsperNet - zeb@hackint - zeb@PdgnCo - zeb@EFNet PGP: 803A 0F47 82AD DDEA 46BE 055F F8F9 DB8C 1A54 6398 (Zebulon McCorkle <zebmccor...@zeb.fun>)
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