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I agree that the risk of running into legal trouble with Facebook is pretty low for many companies. However, that doesn't make it feel any less dirty. It would

I agree that the risk of running into legal trouble with Facebook is pretty low for many companies. However, that doesn't make it feel any less dirty. It would be nice if the lawyers at Facebook would take a chill pill on this one but that will never happen. It will be interesting to see where OSS projects from Facebook go moving forward given that the noise surrounding their patent clause seems to get louder and louder. On a side note - I'll bet WordPress get's rewritten in Vue.js

hdra 9y ago
Why not Preact? It seems the react compatibility would be very helpful when they already have such a significant investment into react.
- taternuts 9y ago
  Could potentially do both interchangeably soon: https://twitter.com/_developit/status/898952382960119808 https://twitter.com/_developit/status/898952382960119808
- chrisco255 9y ago
  That would explain the short time frame quoted for the rewrite.
- morgante 9y ago
  Personally, I have a hard time imagining that any Facebook patents you use with React wouldn't also apply to Preact. Then again, I think this whole patents issue is mostly FUD. The number of companies who have to reasonably consider suing Facebook for patent infringement is small and they know who they are.
  - myhf 9y ago
    If you have nothing to hide from Facebook, you have nothing to fear from Facebook.
    - fetbaffe 9y ago
      How do you know that?
  - thristian 9y ago
    My understanding is that you lose access to React if you sue Facebook over any patents at all, not just ones that may be relative to React.
    - morgante 9y ago
      You lose the patent grant, which applies to all Facebook open source projects (not just React), so they can use all patents they own as part of a defensive portfolio. If initiating a patent war with Facebook is a foreseeable business outcome for you, then you probably shouldn't use React. I remain convinced that logic applies to only a tiny minority of companies.
      - samastur 9y ago
        What happens if you are not the one who initiated the patent war? My reading of the license is that you lose Facebook patent grant even if your lawsuit was a response to Facebook's. I am not a fan of (software) patents, but license restrictions are not limited to them either. So what is your recourse if Facebook decides to infringe yours? Assuming this is true (IANAL), would you still feel as comfortable advising companies to use React? I don't begrudge Facebook for their license for the same reasons that Matt stated, but I am highlighting this issue to my clients and would not recommend React's use because of it.
        dilatorily 9y ago
        IANAL, but you do not lose the patent grant if your lawsuit is in response to Facebook's. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS#L21-L26 https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS#L21-L2...
        samastur 9y ago
        I somehow missed that part. Thanks.
        9y ago
  - tdb7893 9y ago
    I feel like there is practical worth in drawing a line in the sand, though. If all open source libraries had this then using open source would essentially mean you can't sue the big corporations (or having to go through some very lengthy and very expensive expensive engineering if you do). I think that outcome is bad for the industry as a whole and bad for open source in general and it's better to fight now than have to fight it when it's more established.
    - guelo 9y ago
      Why would suing Facebook be good for anybody? Even if you're a VC backed startup and Facebook steals your patent it still would be a bad idea to sue Facebook. During this whole thing I've been agog because I can't figure out what the problem is. Patent lawsuits are bad!
  - invaliduser 9y ago
    The facebook patent clause states that you lose the licence rights to use react if you sue facebook against any patent infringement (for patents you own). There is nothing in that saying that they have patents on react, and if they have patent covering, it very likely covers very much more than just react (because of the generic way patents are filed). «The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent Assertion» see https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS
    - morgante 9y ago
      You should read more carefully, or listen to interpretations from lawyers. The license referred to in that document is the license to any Facebook patents granted within, which might not even exist. The patent grant is separate from the copyright license.
    - matthewmacleod 9y ago
      No, this is wrong. You do not (and cannot, since it’s BSD) have your license to use React revoked. You do have your additional patent grant revoked - that is, if you sue Facebook for patent infringement, you will lose the right that they previously granted to use any and all patents covering React. If we assume that any patents covering React also cover the alternatives such as Preact, the nothing is gained by avoiding React.
  - pluma 9y ago
    According to the author of Preact, that's unlikely because Preact's implementation is very different (it's not just a cleanroom implementation of the same thing). However I'd be more worried that Facebook might hold patents not limited to React itself. Considering how arbitrary software patents often are, I would think it equally as likely that they hold patents covering aspects of Angular or Vue as React. I would also think it's equally as likely that Google holds patents covering aspects of React or GraphQL. As far as I know, unlike GraphQL, nobody has found any patents filed by Facebook that would actually cover any part of React, so right now the patent grant seems to be more of a statement of intent. But expecting you can dodge patent lawsuits by using different technology is absurd. The only way to avoid software patent lawsuits is not to own, deploy or produce software. The only winning move is not to play.
    - oneweekwonder 9y ago
      > nobody has found any patents filed by Facebook that would actually cover any part of React, Somebody on /r/ posted this[0]. [0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242 https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242
      - christophilus 9y ago
        And I responded with this (curious for informed feedback): I just read it. I can't believe this patent was granted. If I'm reading it correctly, it's a patent for an old trick used by every OS and video game ever made. Basically, don't redraw things that aren't in view, and only redraw the bits of things that are in view. Anyway, I can't see how this is applicable to React, as it really isn't how the v-dom works at all. The v-dom isn't about failing to draw clipped items. The v-dom is about diffing two trees and only updating changed items. Am I totally off base here?
        fiatjaf 9y ago
        Thank you, you made me comprehend why all software patents are nonsense.
        9y ago
- ryanswapp 9y ago
  That's true. I wonder if they'd steer clear of Preact just because it is similar to React though? Also, Preact seems to be heavily reliant on the React ecosystem and it wouldn't be much of a rage quit if they picked up the skinnier version of React when that is what they should be doing anyways because... you know... bandwidth.
- koko775 9y ago
  How does that protect anyone? Any patents covering React would probably cover Preact.
  - egeozcan 9y ago
    (IANAL) But you didn't use React so you never accepted that Patents file?
    - mbrock 9y ago
      That's not how it works. The patents file does not take away any rights or impose any obligations. You already have a license to use the React software, because it comes with a BSD license. The patents file is an additional grant of rights. Specifically, the right to immunity against Facebook patents related to React, unless you have yourself initiated a patent lawsuit against Facebook. The Apache License and the Mozilla Public License also contain patent retaliation clauses. Not many people care about this, and not many people even read licenses or think about what they mean, except in the case of React, because it's become a FUD meme. Here's from the Apache License, v2, clause 3: "Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed." So if you sue over a patent, the Apache patent grant terminates. Here's from the Mozilla Public License, v2, clause 5.2: "If You initiate litigation against any entity by asserting a patent infringement claim (excluding declaratory judgment actions, counter-claims, and cross-claims) alleging that a Contributor Version directly or indirectly infringes any patent, then the rights granted to You by any and all Contributors for the Covered Software under Section 2.1 of this License shall terminate." This is even stronger: if you sue over a patent, the entire license (not just the patent grant) is terminated, so that you would then be violating copyright law by distributing software based on that MPL project. Nobody ever mentions that patent retaliation clauses are fairly common in open source, and nobody definitely goes into any detail about what they mean and how they differ. This issue is a textbook case of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt).
- majormajor 9y ago
  That seems like a fine thing to do as a "send a message" type thing, but doesn't seem to help patent wise? Am I misunderstanding the flow? 1) Facebook has patents on some stuff React does. 2) (Assumption) Anything similar enough to be near-source-compatible probably runs a big risk of exposure to those same patents. 3) React is licensed in a way that you can use it without opening yourself up to patent litigation (it grants license to them). 4) Facebook infringes on some more-critical-to-your-business thing. 5) You sue. 6) Facebook sues you for using React (or Preact, from (2)?). If you never use React you never get that patent license anyway, right? So be careful how distinct your replacement is. You'd need to analyze the claims of the patents you're worried about to see if they could still apply. This guy seems to think the same ( 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... ) but also doesn't feel like Facebook would ever use it, though that's not really relevant to the arguments made around the principal here.
  - peterhunt 9y ago
    This is sort of correct, but what you need to understand is by simply putting something on the web you're probably "violating" dozens of patents held by multiple big scary corporations. The big difference here is that FB has specifically described the patent grant, while most open-source projects leave it ambiguous.
kendallpark 9y ago
> I'll bet WordPress get's rewritten in Vue.js I had the same thought. If that's the case, it will be a big boost for Vue.
- pluma 9y ago
  Vue seems the obvious contender but I doubt completely replacing React with Vue this far into development would only cause a delay of a few weeks. Preact or Inferno seem far more likely, considering they won't require massive rewrites.
  - Flenser 9y ago
    "A very large software company that use Inferno in production already had their legal team look into Inferno. It didn't infringe on any patents." — Dominic Gannaway, creator of infernojs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14783208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14783208
    - pluma 9y ago
      ...yet.
kyriakos 9y ago
I think preact since they already used react and will only delay them a few weeks preact seems like the more sensible option
- andybak 9y ago
  I'm unclear on whether Preact solves the issue. On one hand - it's close that it probably infringes on the any patents that cover React On the other - it's not infringing patents that scares people - it's the patent clause in the React licence. If you're not using React, you're not accepting this licence. So Preact seems like it would safe enough - unless you believe that Facebook would one day go on the offensive with React-specific patents. (for the record - this seems unlikely to me)
  - TheCoelacanth 9y ago
    If you assume that Preact infringes any patents that React does, it seems like you are strictly worse off using Preact than using React. If Facebook goes on the offensive, you are protected if you use React but not if you use Preact. If you sue Facebook for patent infringement and they use their patents defensively, you are in exactly the same situation using Preact as you are using React; you don't have a license for the patents in either case.
  - taternuts 9y ago
    What react-specific patents do they have? Preact only borrows concepts like VDOM and the component lifecycle (which isn't new), it's not implemented the same. They share the same API but that's just a name against common events in a component lifecycle, and is mostly for interop and developer ease. I don't see how they could do anything to shut down Preact, though IANAL.
ellyagg 9y ago
> pretty low for many companies C'mon. It's not just pretty low for many companies. It's extremely low for almost all companies. Automattic found it extremely low risk for themselves. If it's not extremely low for almost all companies, then you expect Facebook to initiate patent claims. How soon do you expect to hear that Facebook played offense on them? How many companies do you expect to hear that Facebook threatened or filed against?
- fauigerzigerk 9y ago
  I would say the risk is extremely low on average, but for any particular startup the odds of having a patent dispute with Facebook are pretty much unknowable. Facebook is a very large, rapidly evolving and expanding tech conglomerate. We don't know what all their activities will be in the not too distant future. Facebook is also a public company. We don't know who will control the company in the future and how their strategy will change.
danmaz74 9y ago
Vue.js... Which is totally guaranteed to not be covered by any possible Facebook patents related to react, right?
- rk06 9y ago
  That logic can also be used for Angular 2, Preact, inferno etc. So it is meaningless Stop spreading FUD.
  - danmaz74 9y ago
    Yes, that same logic can be applied to Preact, inferno, and maybe even Angular2. But those who spread FUD are those who say you shouldn't use React because it has the patent grant attached.
8ig8 9y ago
> On a side note - I'll bet WordPress get's rewritten in Vue.js Seems like a good bet. Developers discussing the matter... https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2733 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2733
- rk06 9y ago
  Looked at the issue, Too many Vue fans are there, if I was a core contributor, I would be tempted to lock the discussion to contributors only.
ungzd 9y ago
If these mysterious patents are about things like "virtual DOM", comparing trees of state or something derived from FRP, then using Vue, Preact, Angular 2, Cycle, Riot, Elm, reflex-dom is not more patent-safe. Moreover, they can sue you even if you are not suing them. It's time to move back to jQuery and Prototype.js. Let's wait 20-30 years until these patents expire so everyone finally can use these nice state-management things.

hdra 9y ago

Why not Preact? It seems the react compatibility would be very helpful when they already have such a significant investment into react.

taternuts 9y ago
Could potentially do both interchangeably soon: https://twitter.com/_developit/status/898952382960119808 https://twitter.com/_developit/status/898952382960119808
chrisco255 9y ago
That would explain the short time frame quoted for the rewrite.
morgante 9y ago
Personally, I have a hard time imagining that any Facebook patents you use with React wouldn't also apply to Preact. Then again, I think this whole patents issue is mostly FUD. The number of companies who have to reasonably consider suing Facebook for patent infringement is small and they know who they are.
- myhf 9y ago
  If you have nothing to hide from Facebook, you have nothing to fear from Facebook.
  - fetbaffe 9y ago
    How do you know that?
- thristian 9y ago
  My understanding is that you lose access to React if you sue Facebook over any patents at all, not just ones that may be relative to React.
  - morgante 9y ago
    You lose the patent grant, which applies to all Facebook open source projects (not just React), so they can use all patents they own as part of a defensive portfolio. If initiating a patent war with Facebook is a foreseeable business outcome for you, then you probably shouldn't use React. I remain convinced that logic applies to only a tiny minority of companies.
    - samastur 9y ago
      What happens if you are not the one who initiated the patent war? My reading of the license is that you lose Facebook patent grant even if your lawsuit was a response to Facebook's. I am not a fan of (software) patents, but license restrictions are not limited to them either. So what is your recourse if Facebook decides to infringe yours? Assuming this is true (IANAL), would you still feel as comfortable advising companies to use React? I don't begrudge Facebook for their license for the same reasons that Matt stated, but I am highlighting this issue to my clients and would not recommend React's use because of it.
      - dilatorily 9y ago
        IANAL, but you do not lose the patent grant if your lawsuit is in response to Facebook's. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS#L21-L26 https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS#L21-L2...
        samastur 9y ago
        I somehow missed that part. Thanks.
        9y ago
- tdb7893 9y ago
  I feel like there is practical worth in drawing a line in the sand, though. If all open source libraries had this then using open source would essentially mean you can't sue the big corporations (or having to go through some very lengthy and very expensive expensive engineering if you do). I think that outcome is bad for the industry as a whole and bad for open source in general and it's better to fight now than have to fight it when it's more established.
  - guelo 9y ago
    Why would suing Facebook be good for anybody? Even if you're a VC backed startup and Facebook steals your patent it still would be a bad idea to sue Facebook. During this whole thing I've been agog because I can't figure out what the problem is. Patent lawsuits are bad!
- invaliduser 9y ago
  The facebook patent clause states that you lose the licence rights to use react if you sue facebook against any patent infringement (for patents you own). There is nothing in that saying that they have patents on react, and if they have patent covering, it very likely covers very much more than just react (because of the generic way patents are filed). «The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent Assertion» see https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS
  - morgante 9y ago
    You should read more carefully, or listen to interpretations from lawyers. The license referred to in that document is the license to any Facebook patents granted within, which might not even exist. The patent grant is separate from the copyright license.
  - matthewmacleod 9y ago
    No, this is wrong. You do not (and cannot, since it’s BSD) have your license to use React revoked. You do have your additional patent grant revoked - that is, if you sue Facebook for patent infringement, you will lose the right that they previously granted to use any and all patents covering React. If we assume that any patents covering React also cover the alternatives such as Preact, the nothing is gained by avoiding React.
- pluma 9y ago
  According to the author of Preact, that's unlikely because Preact's implementation is very different (it's not just a cleanroom implementation of the same thing). However I'd be more worried that Facebook might hold patents not limited to React itself. Considering how arbitrary software patents often are, I would think it equally as likely that they hold patents covering aspects of Angular or Vue as React. I would also think it's equally as likely that Google holds patents covering aspects of React or GraphQL. As far as I know, unlike GraphQL, nobody has found any patents filed by Facebook that would actually cover any part of React, so right now the patent grant seems to be more of a statement of intent. But expecting you can dodge patent lawsuits by using different technology is absurd. The only way to avoid software patent lawsuits is not to own, deploy or produce software. The only winning move is not to play.
  - oneweekwonder 9y ago
    > nobody has found any patents filed by Facebook that would actually cover any part of React, Somebody on /r/ posted this[0]. [0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242 https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242
    - christophilus 9y ago
      And I responded with this (curious for informed feedback): I just read it. I can't believe this patent was granted. If I'm reading it correctly, it's a patent for an old trick used by every OS and video game ever made. Basically, don't redraw things that aren't in view, and only redraw the bits of things that are in view. Anyway, I can't see how this is applicable to React, as it really isn't how the v-dom works at all. The v-dom isn't about failing to draw clipped items. The v-dom is about diffing two trees and only updating changed items. Am I totally off base here?
      - fiatjaf 9y ago
        Thank you, you made me comprehend why all software patents are nonsense.
      - 9y ago
ryanswapp 9y ago
That's true. I wonder if they'd steer clear of Preact just because it is similar to React though? Also, Preact seems to be heavily reliant on the React ecosystem and it wouldn't be much of a rage quit if they picked up the skinnier version of React when that is what they should be doing anyways because... you know... bandwidth.
koko775 9y ago
How does that protect anyone? Any patents covering React would probably cover Preact.
- egeozcan 9y ago
  (IANAL) But you didn't use React so you never accepted that Patents file?
  - mbrock 9y ago
    That's not how it works. The patents file does not take away any rights or impose any obligations. You already have a license to use the React software, because it comes with a BSD license. The patents file is an additional grant of rights. Specifically, the right to immunity against Facebook patents related to React, unless you have yourself initiated a patent lawsuit against Facebook. The Apache License and the Mozilla Public License also contain patent retaliation clauses. Not many people care about this, and not many people even read licenses or think about what they mean, except in the case of React, because it's become a FUD meme. Here's from the Apache License, v2, clause 3: "Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed." So if you sue over a patent, the Apache patent grant terminates. Here's from the Mozilla Public License, v2, clause 5.2: "If You initiate litigation against any entity by asserting a patent infringement claim (excluding declaratory judgment actions, counter-claims, and cross-claims) alleging that a Contributor Version directly or indirectly infringes any patent, then the rights granted to You by any and all Contributors for the Covered Software under Section 2.1 of this License shall terminate." This is even stronger: if you sue over a patent, the entire license (not just the patent grant) is terminated, so that you would then be violating copyright law by distributing software based on that MPL project. Nobody ever mentions that patent retaliation clauses are fairly common in open source, and nobody definitely goes into any detail about what they mean and how they differ. This issue is a textbook case of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt).
majormajor 9y ago
That seems like a fine thing to do as a "send a message" type thing, but doesn't seem to help patent wise? Am I misunderstanding the flow? 1) Facebook has patents on some stuff React does. 2) (Assumption) Anything similar enough to be near-source-compatible probably runs a big risk of exposure to those same patents. 3) React is licensed in a way that you can use it without opening yourself up to patent litigation (it grants license to them). 4) Facebook infringes on some more-critical-to-your-business thing. 5) You sue. 6) Facebook sues you for using React (or Preact, from (2)?). If you never use React you never get that patent license anyway, right? So be careful how distinct your replacement is. You'd need to analyze the claims of the patents you're worried about to see if they could still apply. This guy seems to think the same ( 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... ) but also doesn't feel like Facebook would ever use it, though that's not really relevant to the arguments made around the principal here.
- peterhunt 9y ago
  This is sort of correct, but what you need to understand is by simply putting something on the web you're probably "violating" dozens of patents held by multiple big scary corporations. The big difference here is that FB has specifically described the patent grant, while most open-source projects leave it ambiguous.

kendallpark 9y ago

> I'll bet WordPress get's rewritten in Vue.js I had the same thought. If that's the case, it will be a big boost for Vue.

pluma 9y ago
Vue seems the obvious contender but I doubt completely replacing React with Vue this far into development would only cause a delay of a few weeks. Preact or Inferno seem far more likely, considering they won't require massive rewrites.
- Flenser 9y ago
  "A very large software company that use Inferno in production already had their legal team look into Inferno. It didn't infringe on any patents." — Dominic Gannaway, creator of infernojs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14783208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14783208
  - pluma 9y ago
    ...yet.

kyriakos 9y ago

I think preact since they already used react and will only delay them a few weeks preact seems like the more sensible option

andybak 9y ago
I'm unclear on whether Preact solves the issue. On one hand - it's close that it probably infringes on the any patents that cover React On the other - it's not infringing patents that scares people - it's the patent clause in the React licence. If you're not using React, you're not accepting this licence. So Preact seems like it would safe enough - unless you believe that Facebook would one day go on the offensive with React-specific patents. (for the record - this seems unlikely to me)
- TheCoelacanth 9y ago
  If you assume that Preact infringes any patents that React does, it seems like you are strictly worse off using Preact than using React. If Facebook goes on the offensive, you are protected if you use React but not if you use Preact. If you sue Facebook for patent infringement and they use their patents defensively, you are in exactly the same situation using Preact as you are using React; you don't have a license for the patents in either case.
- taternuts 9y ago
  What react-specific patents do they have? Preact only borrows concepts like VDOM and the component lifecycle (which isn't new), it's not implemented the same. They share the same API but that's just a name against common events in a component lifecycle, and is mostly for interop and developer ease. I don't see how they could do anything to shut down Preact, though IANAL.

ellyagg 9y ago

> pretty low for many companies C'mon. It's not just pretty low for many companies. It's extremely low for almost all companies. Automattic found it extremely low risk for themselves. If it's not extremely low for almost all companies, then you expect Facebook to initiate patent claims. How soon do you expect to hear that Facebook played offense on them? How many companies do you expect to hear that Facebook threatened or filed against?

fauigerzigerk 9y ago
I would say the risk is extremely low on average, but for any particular startup the odds of having a patent dispute with Facebook are pretty much unknowable. Facebook is a very large, rapidly evolving and expanding tech conglomerate. We don't know what all their activities will be in the not too distant future. Facebook is also a public company. We don't know who will control the company in the future and how their strategy will change.

danmaz74 9y ago

Vue.js... Which is totally guaranteed to not be covered by any possible Facebook patents related to react, right?

rk06 9y ago
That logic can also be used for Angular 2, Preact, inferno etc. So it is meaningless Stop spreading FUD.
- danmaz74 9y ago
  Yes, that same logic can be applied to Preact, inferno, and maybe even Angular2. But those who spread FUD are those who say you shouldn't use React because it has the patent grant attached.

8ig8 9y ago

> On a side note - I'll bet WordPress get's rewritten in Vue.js Seems like a good bet. Developers discussing the matter... https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2733 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2733

rk06 9y ago
Looked at the issue, Too many Vue fans are there, if I was a core contributor, I would be tempted to lock the discussion to contributors only.

ungzd 9y ago

If these mysterious patents are about things like "virtual DOM", comparing trees of state or something derived from FRP, then using Vue, Preact, Angular 2, Cycle, Riot, Elm, reflex-dom is not more patent-safe. Moreover, they can sue you even if you are not suing them. It's time to move back to jQuery and Prototype.js. Let's wait 20-30 years until these patents expire so everyone finally can use these nice state-management things.