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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by supportengineer on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @04:09PM (#43909121)
6 months of anyone's time is not worth 3 billion dollars.
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by quantadev on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @11:03PM (#43911854)
That was my thoughts too. No text editor is worth $3B, and probably not even VSCode is. So I think this deal was about buying more customers/users and buying "relevance". OpenAI lost it's monopoly and they're worried they might become irrelevant so they basically just purchased something popular to remain relevant.
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by dockercompost on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:22AM (#43912254)
it's not just one person though
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