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Out of instinct to defend YC companies, I supported PearAI without knowing all the facts. In this case the criticism did have merit, and I worked with PearAI’s group partner and the founders to fix this situation. </p><p>Ty Dunn and Nate Sesti, co-founders of <a href=https://www.ycombinator.com/"https://continue.dev/">Continue, have had the grace to light a path forward for PearAI and all developers through their clear communication and commitment to open source. PearAI has apologized, removed the offending repositories, and is working to correct all their mistakes.</p><p>Still, I want to personally apologize to the founders of Continue, the YC community and the open source community for not responding more thoughtfully. </p><p>I also want to clear up some important facts:</p><ul><li><a href=https://www.ycombinator.com/"https://continue.dev/">Continue is not a fork of VS Code, which was misinformation reported in TechCrunch. 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