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Trust. Trust. Trust and Trust again. My brain becomes exhausted within seconds of reading a licence. Not just because I'm lazy, but because I know that however

Trust. Trust. Trust and Trust again. My brain becomes exhausted within seconds of reading a licence. Not just because I'm lazy, but because I know that however closely I think I'm reading it, I probably won't be reading it closely enough to be 100% sure of my conclusions (viz. the differences of opinion here from people that actually have read this thing). So what do I do? I trust certain organisations and I don't trust others. No-one in their right mind can trust Facebook. You might as well trust the Ocean.

pluma 9y ago
Here's an idea: if you intend to lock people into a technology so you can sue them later, would you a) build a small library that encourages modular code, has tons of escape hatches to use other libraries and has so few concepts it actually encourages learning the language and solving problems outside the library instead? Or b) build a large monolith that comes with dozens of idiosyncratic concepts and its own way to solve every problem so you build your entire application inside of it? If I was a patent troll, I would create Angular, not React. I don't trust Google, I don't trust Facebook, I don't trust Tilde, I don't trust Evan You. But at least with React I'm not deeply invested in non-transferable knowledge and have easy migration paths if I ever need to move away from it.
- scandox 9y ago
  Probably why I'm still using Backbone - and actively pondering other options!
  - pluma 9y ago
    You think there aren't patents covering Backbone? Or any other part of your applications?
    - scandox 9y ago
      My concern isn't with Patents per se. It's mainly with the good faith of the originator of a particular piece of code. I mean yes there could be Patents covering everything and anything I ever do, but how would I assess such a thing. I haven't got much control over that side of things. However, I can exercise judgement on the source. And my judgement on Facebook is that I never saw them do anything I liked.

pluma 9y ago

Here's an idea: if you intend to lock people into a technology so you can sue them later, would you a) build a small library that encourages modular code, has tons of escape hatches to use other libraries and has so few concepts it actually encourages learning the language and solving problems outside the library instead? Or b) build a large monolith that comes with dozens of idiosyncratic concepts and its own way to solve every problem so you build your entire application inside of it? If I was a patent troll, I would create Angular, not React. I don't trust Google, I don't trust Facebook, I don't trust Tilde, I don't trust Evan You. But at least with React I'm not deeply invested in non-transferable knowledge and have easy migration paths if I ever need to move away from it.

scandox 9y ago
Probably why I'm still using Backbone - and actively pondering other options!
- pluma 9y ago
  You think there aren't patents covering Backbone? Or any other part of your applications?
  - scandox 9y ago
    My concern isn't with Patents per se. It's mainly with the good faith of the originator of a particular piece of code. I mean yes there could be Patents covering everything and anything I ever do, but how would I assess such a thing. I haven't got much control over that side of things. However, I can exercise judgement on the source. And my judgement on Facebook is that I never saw them do anything I liked.