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by akavi 333 days ago
Is this purely the rump company left over from the Google pseudo-acquistion? Or does this mean that deal fell through?

Does this represent confirmation that there was no pro-rata compensation to common share holders in the Google deal?

I just have so many questions.

2 comments

Windsurf founding team is already at Google
And what is Google "paying $2.4 billion in license fees" to use Windsurf's technology for, and to who? Does Windsurf have any technology?
I suspect it is more a "licence" for the things in the staff's heads for those who were poached.
And this highlights why intellectual property is really gross to me
not sure of windsurf's ToS, but Google could be after the usage data (e.g. did the user accept the suggested edit? if not, what did they change it to? etc.)