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I see lots of down voting on this person, but not many replies. Is there truth to this comment? Is React licensing something companies should avoid?
by notheguyouthink 9y ago
I see lots of down voting on this person, but not many replies. Is there truth to this comment? Is React licensing something companies should avoid?
- jacquesm 9y agoNot a fan of FB here. That comment is nonsense. It is completely unthinkable that Facebook would do this.
- bedros 9y agoif you're a threat to FB, the unthinkable will happen.
- jacquesm 9y agoIf you're a threat to FB you: (1) can afford to roll your own framework (2) can afford the lawyers required to point out that this doesn't hold water
- bedros 9y agototally true, if you're google, however if you're a startup, and build your platform on react, it would be really hard to switch to other platform once you have million of lines of code.
- beagle3 9y ago> It is completely unthinkable that Facebook would do this. Facebook is a (among many other things) a software company, and software companies do warfare with patents. It might be their least favorite weapon, one they have yet to use - but "unthinkable" can only refer to your beliefs -- it is actually extremely thinkable, even if at this point in time improbable.
- jacquesm 9y agoThe lifetime of JS frameworks is so short that this is not a realistic concern, beyond that the license makes it impossible. Sorry but this is not a scenario that will play out in some way that you'd have to be worried about it when evaluating your choices today.
- beagle3 9y agoFor react, you are probably right. I'm really concerned about zstd working its way into some future de-facto standard file format, though - I think the name "zstd" is marketing genius (of the evil kind).
- dkn 9y agoThis is the file in question: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS