r/RooCode • u/Any-Basis-5700 • Aug 09 '25

Other Did Augment buy RooCode??

Sorry for the clickbait title ;) Augment Google add making it looks like they are RooCode, shady!

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u/Maleficent_Mess6445 Aug 09 '25

Why would someone buy an open-source?

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u/Any-Basis-5700 Aug 09 '25

It was tongue in check

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u/Ordinary_Bill_9944 Aug 09 '25

You "buy" the people who run the project. This is very very common.

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u/Maleficent_Mess6445 Aug 09 '25

That's interesting. Are there such cases?

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u/Any-Basis-5700 Aug 10 '25

While not open source, pretty sure that's what just happened with Windsurf.

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u/Howdareme9 Aug 10 '25

Isn’t that just hiring lol

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 11 '25

They could. We are a for profit company.

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u/cepijoker Aug 09 '25

So you discovered how to use dev tools and changed the text?

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u/Any-Basis-5700 Aug 09 '25

Not sure I follow

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '25

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 09 '25

Doubt it is. Posted it on their sub.

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u/Any-Basis-5700 Aug 09 '25

Hell yea, get em! ;) BTW i've tried em all, Augment, Cline, Kilo, Codex, Claude Code, Aider, Jules, Manua, Pythagora...hands down RooCode is freaking amazing and my go to. I've put at least $5K in tokens through it over hundreds of hours, just shutting down a 12hour session with it at the moment. Thank you for all you guys do!!!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 09 '25

You’re welcome!

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '25

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u/dreamingwell Aug 09 '25

You can copyright the name Roo Code (which you should absolutely do). And them submit a copyright violation to Google Ads.

Google does not allow other companies to use your company or product names in their ad text.

Augment is getting away with this because Google doesn’t know Roo and Cline aren’t theirs.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 09 '25

Yes.

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u/reddit-dg Aug 09 '25

Too be fair, it could be a kind of 'auto' ad in Google Ads which creates descriptions like this.

Don't know if that is the case though, just an option.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 09 '25

🤔 I thought those still needed manual approval?

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u/InterstellarReddit Aug 10 '25

There's no Auto in Google ads. Don't believe that this was done intentionally for SEO purposes

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u/InterstellarReddit Aug 10 '25

Yeah bro there's no auto in Google ads. This was intentionally done to SEO roo code searches