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.
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