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Sounds like the argument is while it’s technically open source, trickiness with the licenses makes it basically impossible to legally fork it into a usable soft
by turtletontine 1y ago
Sounds like the argument is while it’s technically open source, trickiness with the licenses makes it basically impossible to legally fork it into a usable software. That sounds plausible to me, I’m no lawyer.
But isn’t Cursor a wildly successful VS Code fork, done legally? (I assume if it were in violation of licenses, Microsoft would have already destroyed them.) Seems like a glaring exception to this argument.
- formerly_proven 1y agoThe secret sauce in Cursor is checks notes ignoring Microsofts license terms and hacking around Microsofts countermeasures and attempts at blocking them. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616838 etc.