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xnx on July 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf

> Google did also just pay $2.5B to license Windsurf in perpetuity

Could there have been a clause that made this invalid in case of acquisition?

wmf on July 14, 2025 [–]

IANAL but you'd have to be pretty dumb to include that clause.

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