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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't use VSCode for the exact reason. I used VSCodium but switched to Neovim. I see this problem more with GitHub (also owned by Microsoft). I was not able to get off GitHub yet, but I'm planning to switch to Codeberg probably. I heard that GitLab is also closed source?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 8 points 1 year ago

Gitlab is open source, but some features are only available in their Enterprise Edition. As the name suggests, unless you are looking for an alternative for a large company, the open source "Community" Edition is enough for all your needs.

[–] 0ryX@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I am also facing the same issue with Github and switching to codeberg. My first hurdle is clouflare pages not sourcing codeberg for website source, only giving options for github and gitlab

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Huh. Hadn't heard of codeberg. They look pretty good.

[–] whou@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

codeberg is great! the community there seems to be interested in growing the platform and developing tools as useful as those on GitLab/GitHub.