And yea, hardly FB specific. Seems all the big ones have these portfolios...
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Can you show me what you consider to be non-bogus software patents? Genuinely curious.
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Replying to @dan_abramov @floydophone and
I don’t believe in software patents, so no :P
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Replying to @maxlynch @dan_abramov and
But basically, were Facebook to use any of those patents, they’d be considered patent trolls themselves by the industry
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Replying to @maxlynch @floydophone and
Yes! Which is exactly why the patent grant protects *you* from getting sued by FB first.
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Replying to @dan_abramov @maxlynch and
People aren't upset because of "hysteria". Facebook is doing something different from *everyone else* and people are upset.
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It is also frustrating that the policy is inconsistent wrt React and other OSS projects from Facebook that don't have the clause.
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A lot of the FB OSS that doesn’t have the clause seems to have been created before the clause or outside of FB and absorbed/hired in
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Exception? I was more thinking Redux and Babel which are widely seen as maintained by FB
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Babel was only ever maintained by Facebook when I was working on v6.
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Truth and public perception don’t always match
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