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by BaculumMeumEst 620 days ago
Do you guys think Microsoft is pissed that Cursor exists? Do you think there are internal execs raging about the decision to open source VS Code because of it?
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I can give you one data point. There is no way in hell my company would let us use cursor. Generative AI is viewed with a lot of skepticism, and we spent a long time testing out copilot before approving it for all developers to use. We use copilot because microsoft is so trusted and we use many microsoft products
They're probably asking themselves how Meta/Facebook is able to misappropriate "Open Source" to mean something completely different, and how they can do so themselves now while still showing "Microsoft <3 Open Source" ads.
They are probably relieved/glad that some player is helping them validate market for them.