VSCode itself was a malicious move by Microsoft to capitalize on Atom's success, followed by the acquisition of Github and the beheading of Atom.

VSCode is "open source" with a walled garden of a marketplace. A quick look at how Microsoft is trying to kill competitors like Cursor (within the last week) by squeezing them out of the walled garden is... telling.

These moves by Microsoft are not made in the spirit of open source. It's in the spirit of EEE.

It's still valid today, they just wear different clothes.