Acquihire - they’re acquiring it for the team behind it to eventually develop proprietary software

> develop proprietary software

This is a weird strategy to stake future IP value on in the age of AI. With competent and fully qualified team, anyone should be able to reverse engineer this idea and build a roadmap for their own implementation. Especially in the world of open source.

	▲	duskdozer 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		1. They can gain at least a temporary advantage by using a proprietary version. They'll have the original devs who can continue where they were before. 2. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a situation where LLM-based copyright laundering becomes illegal/enforced, but only in favor of large corporations' copyright, in which case they could maintain the advantage What would they miss out on? A bunch of PRslop? The "open source community" is now dead.
	▲	scottyah 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Do you really think someone off the street, armed with Opus 5.5 could recreate Deno? Or would you pull Cloudflare people off what they were doing (meaning it's a very inefficient company) to work on this? At the end of the day, great engineers armed with great tools are going to outperform anyone who just has the great tools.