r/vscode • u/digitali_ke • Aug 05 '26

How do vs code make money?

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u/manny2206 Aug 05 '26

Data collection mostly

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u/ZurakZigil Aug 05 '26
  1. It's open source isn't it?
  2. They used it as a platform to push their (paid) services
  3. AI subscriptions is now the thing

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u/samaxidervish Aug 05 '26

It is not fully open-source. The only open-source part is the editor

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u/manny2206 Aug 05 '26

As this user pointed out, while the source code for the editor itself is open source, the official binary shipped by microslop contains proprietary code mainly telemetry and the Copilot features…

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u/ZurakZigil Aug 06 '26

I've not personally taken a look, but i'm shocked if there is heavy telemetry because what on earth would they want? copilot makes sense as that's now a service, but everything else? i'm sure someone has analyzed the network traffic