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"You hereby assign to Cognition... all right, title, and interest in, and Cognition is free to use, without any attribution or compensation to any party, any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques...Excerpt from Windsurf's Cognition Platform Terms of Service
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The clause states: “You hereby assign to Cognition... all right, title, and interest in, and Cognition is free to use, without any attribution or compensation to any party, any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques...”
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