Windsurf founding team is already at Google

And what is Google "paying $2.4 billion in license fees" to use Windsurf's technology for, and to who? Does Windsurf have any technology?

I suspect it is more a "licence" for the things in the staff's heads for those who were poached.

And this highlights why intellectual property is really gross to me

not sure of windsurf's ToS, but Google could be after the usage data (e.g. did the user accept the suggested edit? if not, what did they change it to? etc.)