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My take on all this is Facebook's legal team seems to be sending a message to the open source community that they should come for the ideas, but wait for a trul
by perpetualcrayon 9y ago
My take on all this is Facebook's legal team seems to be sending a message to the open source community that they should come for the ideas, but wait for a truly open source alternative to come out before using those ideas in their own products.
- thewhitetulip 9y agoOr probably they are a mixture of old and new ideas and eventually things will streamline?
- ungzd 9y agoBut if you are using ideas from their software, you are infringing patents too.
- koolba 9y agoWell duh thats the idea. Then they can sue you. More work for FB's legal team too.
- perpetualcrayon 9y agoI'm obviously not condoning patent infringement. The idea is to learn from useful ideas and implement a non-infringing equivalent as an open source project. You can't patent "math", or "computer science", or ideas comparably broad.
- moocowtruck 9y agoyou shouldn't be able to patent a query language for a graph either but here we are
- Lazare 9y agoThat doesn't work for patents...
- perpetualcrayon 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15292834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15292834