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By "use patents as a weapon" you mean "ever plan to enforce patents against Facebook"? That's quite a stretch. Still, folks more knowledgeable than me on this
by andreyf 9y ago
By "use patents as a weapon" you mean "ever plan to enforce patents against Facebook"? That's quite a stretch.
Still, folks more knowledgeable than me on this topic say it's not a big deal: https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revokable-patent-license-why-its-a-paper-25c40c50b562 https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revok...
- namelost 9y agoMany people around these parts reject software patents as immoral, because software is just applied mathematics and mathematics should not be patentable. So yes, any use of a software patent offensively is malicious.
- setzer22 9y agoSoftware can ve very far from mathematics. Your argument applies to algorithms, but personally I don't think that React falls under the category of algorithms (it may use algorithms, though).