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As a small startup, I absolutely love Facebook's React patent licensing. It gives me the advantage to use React (Native) while my bigger VC-funded competitors c
by ngsayjoe 9y ago
As a small startup, I absolutely love Facebook's React patent licensing. It gives me the advantage to use React (Native) while my bigger VC-funded competitors can't. It is like the opposite of economy of scale, haha.
(PS: i have no plan to be acquired or raise a VC round or file any patent)
- ktta 9y agoIf you read the article again, you will notice the point about how large communities don't form with these licenses. Open source software shouldn't have any restrictions on who can use them and who can't. While this license don't specifically exclude a class of people explicitly, even you agree that big companies can't use these projects. So these projects effectively exclude hundreds of thousands of software developers (who work in >small orgs) from using this project and therefore contribute to it. This greatly hurts the project itself, while projects no using this kind of license won't have a problem.
- nojvek 9y agoYour bigger VC competitors probably used Preact, inferno or other vdom libraries so it's really not a great competitive edge. Except it says that you're not serious about your startup's long term future.
- ktta 9y agoI'm arguing that there will be no competitive edge. React got where it is today with the help of lots of developers. If the current license problems came to light before, React would be an inferior project compared to others because the others will have more development. So the ecosystem around other popular project (VueJS?) would be bigger and more robust (because of the number of people providing feedback and filing bugs)