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>>scared+(OP)
Cursor: a VS Code extension that got itself valued at $10bn.

>>jen729+ZY3
It’s basically a vscode fork that illegally uses official extensions, that were not allowed to be used in forks.

>>merb+904
Does "it" use the official extensions, or does it only allow "you" the user to use them?

>>falcor+da4
First of all, their docs link to the market place of ms:

https://www.cursor.com/how-to-install-extension

Which is basically an article to use an extension in a way that’s basically forbidden use.

If that was not bad enough the editor also told you to install certain extensions if certain file extensions were used that were also against the tos of the extension.

And basically cursor can just be using the vsix marketplace from eclipse, which does not contain restricted extensions.

What they do is at least shady.

And yes I’m not a fan of the fact that Microsoft does this, even worse they closed the source (or some parts of it) of some extensions as well, which is also a bad move (but their right)

>>merb+Gb4
I don't see a problem with this. If it's an extension on my machine, why do I care about the TOS?

>>Middle+hf4
The extensions themselves have licenses that prohibit their use with anything other than VSCode.

(You should keep this in mind next time someone tells you that VSCode is "open source", by the way. The core IDE is, sure, but if you need to do e.g. Python or C++, the official Microsoft extensions involved all have these kinds of clauses in them.)