> Let's stop at "vscode is open-source in a very narrow and limited capacity, and thoroughly deceptive in its messaging".

OK, yes, I agree; we should stop, as the disagrement seems to boil down to semantics.

I think "open source" is basically binary (modulo the usual free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-beer-but-also-you-can't-do-stuff-I-don't-like ambiguity).

But some nuance does come into play around "VS Code" — what is it? It feels the same as Chrome to me, but it's harder to see where the VS Code equivalent of Chromium is. (Not super hard, mind you, but Chrome/Chromium make it explicit, whereas VS Code does not.)

Anyway, I agree that VS Code is (while still, IMO, "open-source") is not "open-source to the point of maximal awesomeness".