> With Gitpod people from all over the world can contribute from any device without the typical $3,000 Macbook Pro barrier to entry.
which parallel universe is this from? my first personal development machine was a netbook with a 1024x600 screen and Linux graphics drivers without 3D. it's less fine now but you still don't need to drop 3k on a macbook ffs
i remember reading https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ and it kind of made sense at the time, but i no longer feel like it does
the fundamental complaint there is that Microsoft (a commercial entity extracting profit from its products) makes some of their work available with no restrictions in perpetuity in a way that makes it harder for Gitpod (a commercial entity extracting profit from its products) to compete with it
isn't this just how business works?
A couple of moments ago, I finished reading the article by Rob O'Leary about the pervasive data collection done by Visual Studio Code. Now that I'm no longer an employee at Gitpod, I'm finally able to author a blog post freely about something that has been troubling me for quite
as best as i can see, the reason Gitpod continues to exist is because a bunch of other really large organizations, like Samsung for example, decided that they'd rather pay Gitpod than pay Microsoft, which is a business decision
it's not built by a community nor is it even a public good. it's just providing a commodity at a lower price. i dunno why i should be cheering for them any more than i should be cheering for any other supplier of a commodity
@whitequark No, it is not the exact same codebase as Microsoft's build; that's the whole point of the project. (As Huntley's article explains.) That VSCodium can't use the trademark is incidental.
One uses VSCodium so one doesn't need to install the version with Microsoft's secret spyware. It's obviously a competing product.
@foone I have a desktop with Emacs on one screen, Emacs on a second and (you guessed it) Emacs on the third.
Actually that's a lie, usually the third screen is Outlook these days 😭@whitequark
@whitequark In the corporate world I wouldn't expect anything less than a $2k/$3k laptop for a developer. The thing has to last 3+ years for tax write-off reasons. And it takes surprisingly few hours for the initial gains of a cheap laptop to evaporate due to slowness or failure.
But that's risk management, not a barrier to entry. A lot of development tools work on surprisingly old hardware.
@whitequark i dont think i ever bought a laptop
like, ppl in my family just gave me old laptops that they upgraded
(although downside is i never get anything anywhere new, currently on a 2018 mbp)
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