Having big corporations contribute to projects is totally great! The incentives are just fucky when they control them.

My favorite example: VSCode is a great piece of software, but almost half of it is actually only available in a proprietary build from Microsoft's website that contains telemetry.

> but almost half of it is actually only available in a proprietary build from Microsoft

Which half?

VSCodium works great, so I'd go as far to say 99% of VSCode is actually open source (the name and icons being exceptions). You cannot say proprietary extensions are half of VSCode.

I find so ironic that most people that complain about telemetry are also big Google Docs users, or Web apps in general.

Not necessarly your case, but surely for most complainers.