I don't think this is a fair assessment.

This post is about two plugins (`LiveShare` and `Remote`), both by Microsoft, not being open source. None of these plugins are even mentioned on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code homepage [0]. At least LiveShare is marketed as a separate tool for which a Visual Studio Code plugin exists (as well as a Visual Studio plugin).

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/ [1] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/de/services/live-share/

Microsoft's Python support just went closed source(pylance vs python language server) the closed sourceness is creeping in on multiple sides. IntelliCode is another closed source aspect.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release