alt Hacker News> I don't know if Raycast team even knows about this.
I'm part of Raycast, we didn't know about it, learnt about it here
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tyleo • today at 12:10 PM
I haven’t clicked through so all I know about Raycast is, “that’s the company that gets shoved into ads by copilot.”
Sounds like it’s not your fault but it’s probably doing some brand damage :/
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Creepy. Looks like they rolled it back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233
Collection of my thoughts which don't really get to a point:
- Microsoft owns GitHub, where Raycast is being mentioned thousands of times by their tooling.
- Microsoft is a modern popularizer of the infamous phrase, embrace extend extinguish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
- Microsoft has a history of monopoly behavior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
- From an empathetic perspective I hope for the sake of the customers of raycast and for its employees that Microsoft is not into any kind of negotiations with Raycast at the moment.