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Before the skeptical comments rush in, can we for a moment take a step back and appreciate this. Facebook has a lot of leaders who has worked in the industry fo
by Cherian 11y ago
Before the skeptical comments rush in, can we for a moment take a step back and appreciate this. Facebook has a lot of leaders who has worked in the industry for long and I am sure they understand the value as much as we do. There’s a very strong possibility that FB did this without any motives.
- mikecb 11y agoEspecially with the Stamos hire (not to say that there aren't plenty of previous FBers that shared his views, but he is particularly vocal on issues like this.)
- atomicfiredoll 11y agoThis was my first thought too. It's not hard to imagine him pushing the idea of sponsoring a project like Let's Encrypt to other higher-ups in the company.
- myth_buster 11y agoBefore the skeptical comments rush in If the comment is in relation to the criticism to Mark's donations, I think this is a non sequitur... I believe people understand that in large orgs there are factions that operate with different motives. Also this is a good cause so perhaps it helps their image too. So people won't be too critical of it.
- andreyf 11y agoI often wonder whether the relationships between brand-less factions in (and across) organizations has more of an impact than the official PR-heavy moves made under the institutional brand. Take, for example, the changes that have happened at Microsoft since Ballmer's departure. I have a hard time imagining the branching GitHub's Atom to make an open source "light IDE", deprecating IE, and Google's using TypeScript for Angular2 happening while Ballmer's faction was in power. Microsoft has the same name, but it's acting like a very different beast. I'm not sure how one could observe these factions cut across institutions, but I'd be interested if anyone has any suggested readings.
- myth_buster 11y agoorganizations has more of an impact than the official PR-heavy moves made under the institutional brand I believe heavy handed central planning at a large scale is destined to be inefficient. Sure there would be fragmentation but the system would be fluid. The chances of bad decisions taking the ship down will be reduced.
- recursive 11y agoIf you're referring to VS Code, it doesn't use Atom at all.
- andreyf 11y agoOh, interesting. Not sure where I heard that... thank you for the correction!
- rand334 11y agoNo, I think it's related to Facebook being a PRISM company and having a deplorable privacy policy, and generally giving no shits about privacy or security. Also, Mark's internet.org wasn't going to support HTTPS.
- awqrre 11y agoApparently this is a donation that has happened unlike Mark's donations. (sorry if I state the obvious but hopefully he doesn't divorce before those donations happen (knock on wood))
- awqrre 11y agoplease help me understand why this comment is so unpopular?
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- notatoad 11y agoI'm on board with all the "facebook is evil" stuff and i don't use their product for various reasons, but their engineering department is really a good citizen of the internet and open source. Sponsoring Let's Encrypt is really in character for facebook, it's just the sort of thing they do.
- tellor 11y agoSorry, I'm is not registered user of that SN, but periodic getting spam emails about invitation. Hope that without any motives. Thinking beware with gifts ...