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> By using and supporting Facebook's open-source projects, you are supporting their bad practices indirectly. I hope you're actively boycotting Coca Cola and N
by pluma 9y ago
> By using and supporting Facebook's open-source projects, you are supporting their bad practices indirectly.
I hope you're actively boycotting Coca Cola and Nestlé products (including their myriads of affiliated brands) then, because by purchasing them you're directly supporting the bad practices of those companies. And let's not forget the unethical practices of other tech companies like Google and Apple.
Facebook's open-source projects are open-source. You don't give them money to use them. You don't pay them by contributing. No money changes hands.
If literally Hitler produced an awesome tech framework and published it as open-source, I would still use it if it's good and I would see no ethical problem with that either.
It's not about who creates technology, it's about how it is used. The benefit Facebook derives from outsiders contributing to React is minute compared to the benefit other people who are not Facebook derive, who can use React to build amazing things to help people and potentially even harm Facebook indirectly.
Tu quoque, maybe, but this is an exceptionally strange hill to die on. You can hate a company with a vengeance and want it destroyed and still benefit from their open-source efforts. Just make sure you can still move on if needed to avoid lock-in (but I suppose you've never heard of Preact).
- amelius 9y ago> If literally Hitler produced an awesome tech framework and published it as open-source, I would still use it if it's good and I would see no ethical problem with that either. Okay, at this point I'm convinced that you are just trying to rationalize yourself out of the essence of this discussion. Like I said elsewhere, open-source is not a one-way proposition. It benefits Facebook to a great extent.