Can Cursor sign a DPA in addition to an enterprise contract where they actually have to put into concise writing what they are and aren't doing with our data? Microsoft will. Amazon will. But in my experience a lot of smaller players can't or won't. That's a legal blocker.

This is such a common lazy cynical take on HN. “Microsoft is evil, therefore they will destroy their enterprise customer relationships by stealing their enterprise customer data, despite the fact that they explicitly state they will not do that.”

I would understand this mindset when it comes to consumer uses of it, but enterprise is where Microsoft makes its money and it would have to be the dumbest business decision ever to ruin the enterprise cash cow by doing that.

My company isn't. Apparently, "We've heard of Microsoft" == "They won't do anything wrong with our data" in the minds of non-technical lawyer types.

Microsoft already has access to all of your code on Github.

Microsoft is a monopoly and they've done everything they can to scare people about AI.

Part of the hangup is that startups are shit at dealing with enterprise privacy contracts, whereas Microsoft probably has a whole department for that.

A product can work however it works, good or bad, but if you can't wrap contractual guarantees around it that are palatable to your enterprise customers, you're not going to get enterprise sales.