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History is littered with counter-examples and great successes. Each generation of company is more efficient or solves more complicated problems than those befor
by dustingetz 10y ago
History is littered with counter-examples and great successes. Each generation of company is more efficient or solves more complicated problems than those before it. Facebook itself is an industry leader in open source innovation, which is why their product is so smooth. But not all companies specialize in hard tech, and all companies get old.
- coldtea 10y ago>Facebook itself is an industry leader in open source innovation In the sense that they gave us React and couple JS tools? What are their other "industry leading open source innovations"? That's hardly a major "open source innovation". Heck, Google itself has produces 2-3 similar JS pieces (Angular, GWT, Closure compiler, Dart, etc).
- objclxt 10y ago> In the sense that they gave us React and couple JS tools? What are their other "industry leading open source innovations"? OpenCompute (http://opencompute.org http://opencompute.org), Hack (http://hacklang.org http://hacklang.org), Phabricator (now spun off, still OSS, https://secure.phabricator.com https://secure.phabricator.com), GraphQL (http://graphql.org http://graphql.org)...none of these are JS tools, all have had major industry impact. GitHub's entire API, for example, is now GraphQL based. And that's just a small sampling. I can't quite decide if you're being deliberately provocative or just misinformed.
- coldtea 10y ago>I can't quite decide if you're being deliberately provocative or just misinformed. Or maybe I genuinely disagree in your assessment that any of those technologies (apart from GraphQL, and that is still nowhere near major league) had any major "industry impact".