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>>james2+(OP)
Kernel, compiler, text editor: all must be free software, with full source code and permissive licenses.

I will die on this hill.

Closed source editors (including VS Code) are simply nonstarters for me.

This is my toolchain, my job, my life, my hobby, my passion. The legal prohibition on modifying it is against every single thing I sit down at a computer to do.

It might sound snobbish, but if you can’t (or don’t) modify your #1 tool (your editor), are you really a hacker? What are you hacking on, and why, then?

>>sneak+tq
Are you really a hacker if you haven't soldered you CPU and RAM yourself? Is your electricity coming from a OSS treadmill? I question your dedication.

>>sksrbW+VK
Not remotely the same, false equivalence. I don’t regularly need to add CPU instructions; I do regularly need to amend my tools.

>>sneak+V01
Yet you deny this freedom to your own users (as seen in a AGPL thread in 2021). Interesting.