I said that for a long time and continued to say that right up to the point where Facebook said they are explicitly leaving the clause in as a weapon. The fact

I said that for a long time and continued to say that right up to the point where Facebook said they are explicitly leaving the clause in as a weapon. The fact is that every big company named by that post undoubtedly has an expensive cross licensing agreement. The other fact is that the original react license (apache 2) defended them perfectly well, but they went out of their way to change it and further out of their way to explicitly keep it. That's not FUD. It's simple business sense to avoid complications.