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ivanjermakov
on Sept 4, 2025
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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
Why would anyone acquire a company that made a successful VSCode fork or a wrapped Chromium browser? I expect these people making such decisions to be far from understanding tech behind it.
alberth
on Sept 4, 2025
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Cursor is a VSCode fork, generating reported $500M+ in revenue and is only a couple years old.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/cursors-anysphere-nabs-9-9...
Sebguer
on Sept 4, 2025
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Yes, and the person you are replying to is clearly referencing Windsurf which was another vscode fork...
Spivak
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Arc I think graduated from wrapper status, it was a really interesting and unique browser while it lasted.
conradev
on Sept 4, 2025
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In The Browser Company’s case, they have a lot of engineers who work on Chromium. Not sure about the other wrapper companies!
nailer
on Sept 4, 2025
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Because those companies own the customers.
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