Anaconda puts squeeze on data scientists deemed to be terms-of-service violators

This points to a widely unspoken reason why people use vim/emacs instead of VSCode, JetBrains, etc. No one can take my editor from me, upon which I stake my livelihood because of some corporate whims. Neither do I have to pay a yearly subscription or worry about an arbitrary terms of service change after I’ve incorporated the tool into my livelihood.

Yes, I am aware that VSCode is open source and that there is a fork that removes Microsoft’s telemetry every release. Even so, there is only so much trust that can be given to an organization in charge of my main tools. So too have Anaconda users been bitten.

If there was a nuclear war, you might have to do all your work from an underground bunker. Is that a reason to do all your work from an underground bunker now?

Unless you live in a city a bunker really isn't necessary. Just tape trash bags over any blown out windows so rain/dust doesn't get in and don't go outside for a couple weeks.

It's easy to work around the restrictions. Just use only conda-forge and no default channels.

It's not as had as it sounds.

Wow, they really threatened a hospital!