> Our long-term plan is to transition our Microsoft Python Language Server users over to Pylance and eventually deprecate and remove the old language server as a supported option.
Well it's open source, so the community can maintain and support it if it wants to. Microsoft isn't obligated to maintain and support its old language server in perpetuity.
Nor is it obligated to open source it's new language server, which it clearly sees as filled with secret sauce, being best in class and providing a significant competitive advantage that it doesn't want to give away for free to all of it's competitors.
Also see Halloween Documents, particularly those who haven't read much of important computer history and were not around at the time or sometime later:
I mean, we are doing exactly what you just said: they are doing what they want, as is their right, I find it what they are doing to be dishonest and call them out on it. Not that they will care. But in the end, the consequences of their actions is that people who dislike them will talk bad about them.
The have the right to be two-faced about their open source policy, I have the right to speak about how I think it's bad to do so.
> Our long-term plan is to transition our Microsoft Python Language Server users over to Pylance and eventually deprecate and remove the old language server as a supported option.