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OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

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972 points rcchen | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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Ancalagon ◴[11 Jul 25 21:46 UTC] No.44537076[source]▶
So Google, Meta, and Microsoft will just hollow out the best AI startups of their talent instead of buying them - out of fear of monopoly lawsuits I'm assuming?

Nice plan I guess. Kind of obvious to spot though.

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bix6 ◴[11 Jul 25 22:03 UTC] No.44537214[source]▶
Can shareholders sue? I presume the only avenue is IP since that belongs to the company? Or the non-exclusive license somehow negates that? Brutal.
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Ancalagon ◴[11 Jul 25 22:07 UTC] No.44537243[source]▶
I actually don't know if there's much that can be done unless there's some non-competes in those employees' contracts which are usually not very enforceable outside of finance iirc.
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bix6 ◴[11 Jul 25 22:18 UTC] No.44537335[source]▶
Non competes aren’t enforceable in California but the company owns the IP so I’m curious about this license loophole they are using.
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rafaelmn ◴[12 Jul 25 09:49 UTC] No.44540729[source]▶
Is there any IP that's actually valuable without the team ? I sincerely doubt it.
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1. bix6 ◴[12 Jul 25 15:45 UTC] No.44542864[source]▶
The whole point of funding a company is for the company to build IP that makes the company valuable. Founders can't take investor money and then just go start another company -- that's specifically barred in most docs. There have been a lot of these weird "loopholes" lately that are completely against the spirit of company building.