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WordPress to ditch React library over Facebook patent clause risk

23 points by gpvos 9y ago

madeofpalk 9y ago
> Florenzano is now celebrating the decision to move away from React… I'm confused as to why you would _celebrate_ this. Unless you're a competitor to React and they're switching to you, who are you to care who else uses React?
- marcofatica 9y ago
  I don't like Facebook or the decisions they've been making more a company, and I don't particularly like React
- justboxing 9y ago
  > who are you to care who else uses React Maybe (I'm completely speculating here) it was a 'moral victory' for him. Just like how lot of people left Godaddy when their support for SOPA was exposed. It wasn't anything to do with their level of service, rather a moral standing.
sverige 9y ago
Good move by Wordpress. The more Facebook says it's open source, there's no risk, it's just to stop bad litigation, the more urgent these decisions become.
ealexhudson 9y ago
I know a number of start-ups who do use React, or plan to use React in the near future, sometimes for pretty critical pieces of their product. I think this puts a cloud over that. I don't think necessarily that React users are at any legal risk, but the problem is valuation. If you're looking to acquire a company that has a product that significantly uses React, why wouldn't you use this as a way of beating down the price? In some cases it could be seen as too big a risk altogether - if you're a GitLab or whoever, and you have an explicit stance against the React license, you're not going to acquire a product that uses React unless you have a plan in place to replace React. I think that's a pretty sad state of affairs...
- madeofpalk 9y ago
  Who are the companies that are going to be doing these big acquisitions? Chances are they're already using React.
merricksb 9y ago
Discussed 5 days ago (540 points, 200 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253781 Note this TechCrunch post is dated September 15.

23 points by gpvos 9y ago

> Florenzano is now celebrating the decision to move away from React… I'm confused as to why you would _celebrate_ this. Unless you're a competitor to React and they're switching to you, who are you to care who else uses React?

marcofatica 9y ago
I don't like Facebook or the decisions they've been making more a company, and I don't particularly like React
justboxing 9y ago
> who are you to care who else uses React Maybe (I'm completely speculating here) it was a 'moral victory' for him. Just like how lot of people left Godaddy when their support for SOPA was exposed. It wasn't anything to do with their level of service, rather a moral standing.

sverige 9y ago

Good move by Wordpress. The more Facebook says it's open source, there's no risk, it's just to stop bad litigation, the more urgent these decisions become.

ealexhudson 9y ago

I know a number of start-ups who do use React, or plan to use React in the near future, sometimes for pretty critical pieces of their product. I think this puts a cloud over that. I don't think necessarily that React users are at any legal risk, but the problem is valuation. If you're looking to acquire a company that has a product that significantly uses React, why wouldn't you use this as a way of beating down the price? In some cases it could be seen as too big a risk altogether - if you're a GitLab or whoever, and you have an explicit stance against the React license, you're not going to acquire a product that uses React unless you have a plan in place to replace React. I think that's a pretty sad state of affairs...

madeofpalk 9y ago
Who are the companies that are going to be doing these big acquisitions? Chances are they're already using React.

merricksb 9y ago

Discussed 5 days ago (540 points, 200 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253781 Note this TechCrunch post is dated September 15.