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After reading this article, I can see where Facebook is coming from when making these licensing changes. However, the points he makes about smaller companies f
by TwelveNights 9y ago
After reading this article, I can see where Facebook is coming from when making these licensing changes. However, the points he makes about smaller companies feeling pain from Facebook due to patent infringement is very real too.
- matt4077 9y agoWhat patents, exactly, is Facebook infringing? And considering Facebook has one rather specific product: How would it help these companies if Facebook avoided their patented technology, unless they're trying to start a social network? And if they're starting a social network: is there anything that makes it plausible that their lack of success in unseating Facebook is due to this technology? And if they're feeling the pain, have any of them sued Facebook and won? If not: Is it because they're using React? If not: How does the patent grant make a difference then?
- sasmithjr 9y agoFacebook has more than one product. They have the social network itself; a lot of work around ads, ad targeting and ad delivery; Oculus technology, both hardware and software; their efforts to bring internet to many places, etc. You can sue Facebook for infringing a patent with Oculus and they'll come after you for your use of React/GraphQL/etc.
- TwelveNights 9y agoSorry, I meant it in a future tense. I don't mean that Facebook is deliberately infringing on patents now.