Not sure I'm up for switching from Sublime Text. From their License:
The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. For this pre-release version, users cannot opt out of data collection. There may also be some features in the software that enable collection of data from users of your applications. If you use these features to enable data collection in your applications, you must comply with applicable law, including providing appropriate notices to users of your applications.
Microsoft collects data to operate effectively and provide you with the best products, services and experiences we can. Some of this information you provide directly to us, such as when you register for a service like Visual Studio Online. Some of it we get by recording how you interact with our products and services. We collect this data in a variety of ways, including from web forms and software running on your device. We also obtain data from other sources and combine with data we collect directly.
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Full disclosure: I have Sublime Text. I happily paid for it after using an unregistered copy for about a month. Sublime's EULA only goes over it being copyright work, what computers you can use it on, and that they aren't held liable if it crashes and you didn't save for 3 hours. I have no qualms with paying $70 USD for my privacy.
It's a pre-release, they are interested in collecting usage data in order to figure out what needs fixing, and how things can be better. The EULA will change on release. The same type of EULA and privacy statements has been for all of Microsoft's pre-releases, and they have always changed it into being opt-in on the actual release.
I understand that trade-off, you get a free product and they get data on how it's being used to improve it. I'm completely fine with that sort of thing if it is clear from the beginning. I hate having to read terms of service to find out how much data will be collected on me. If I'm paying for a product then I expect that privacy, if it's free I assume data collection will happen but I like to think it won't be too intrusive. But when I read things like this:
We collect this data in a variety of ways, including from web forms and software running on your device. We also obtain data from other sources and combine with data we collect directly.
I don't like how vague it is, "other sources" could be practically anything.
Thankfully, in this case, Microsoft didn't have a gigantic legal wall of text. It was rather clear and concise. So some points to them for not burying it in legal jargon.
Is nice, as being able to view definitions is one leg up on notepad++ (unless I am unaware of that feature there). However I noticed in the license that the data collection can not be opted out of for this pre-release version. That's pretty disappointing.
I like the effort but there's something unnerving about MS having a program called "Code" without the source code being available... Plus, if it's true they took Atom and modified it, than that's even worse.
I don't see the point in using a closed-source code editor when there are so many on the market right now.
Actually it's pretty nice. The git integration is neat. It also has autocomplete that's better than most text editors (not IDE). But it's still very young and crashes occasionally on Ubuntu, so I'm still sticking with Atom.
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10 u/captbrogers 11 Jul 2015 06:11
Not sure I'm up for switching from Sublime Text. From their License:
And from their Privacy Statement:
[Edited to add] Full disclosure: I have Sublime Text. I happily paid for it after using an unregistered copy for about a month. Sublime's EULA only goes over it being copyright work, what computers you can use it on, and that they aren't held liable if it crashes and you didn't save for 3 hours. I have no qualms with paying $70 USD for my privacy.
0 u/Cuddlefluff 15 Jul 2015 17:39
It's a pre-release, they are interested in collecting usage data in order to figure out what needs fixing, and how things can be better. The EULA will change on release. The same type of EULA and privacy statements has been for all of Microsoft's pre-releases, and they have always changed it into being opt-in on the actual release.
0 u/captbrogers 15 Jul 2015 18:04
I understand that trade-off, you get a free product and they get data on how it's being used to improve it. I'm completely fine with that sort of thing if it is clear from the beginning. I hate having to read terms of service to find out how much data will be collected on me. If I'm paying for a product then I expect that privacy, if it's free I assume data collection will happen but I like to think it won't be too intrusive. But when I read things like this:
I don't like how vague it is, "other sources" could be practically anything.
Thankfully, in this case, Microsoft didn't have a gigantic legal wall of text. It was rather clear and concise. So some points to them for not burying it in legal jargon.
1 u/justcause 11 Jul 2015 05:27
Is nice, as being able to view definitions is one leg up on notepad++ (unless I am unaware of that feature there). However I noticed in the license that the data collection can not be opted out of for this pre-release version. That's pretty disappointing.
1 u/cluckwerk 11 Jul 2015 06:57
As a die hard Ubuntu user... I will continue using terminator and vim for everything.
0 u/Boneasaurus 11 Jul 2015 16:28
I like the effort but there's something unnerving about MS having a program called "Code" without the source code being available... Plus, if it's true they took Atom and modified it, than that's even worse.
I don't see the point in using a closed-source code editor when there are so many on the market right now.
0 u/simery 11 Jul 2015 17:10
Anything for chrome OS? no? Off to figure out crouton...
0 u/kuda 11 Jul 2015 19:49
Actually it's pretty nice. The git integration is neat. It also has autocomplete that's better than most text editors (not IDE). But it's still very young and crashes occasionally on Ubuntu, so I'm still sticking with Atom.