The problem is that Facebook faces no punishment for initiating patent lawsuits, which is different from Apache.
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Reality is that FB is sued (way) more often that suing others. You can choose to ignore this but I don't fault them for accounting for it.
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I don't in any way fault them for trying to turn FB "OSS" into a Trojan horse to protect themselves from patent suits. Just worth knowing.
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When you use Facebook "OSS" you're participating in a scheme cooked up by Facebook legal to mitigate legal risks to Facebook the corporation
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when you use [INSERT WEBSITE HERE] you're participating in a scheme to mitigate legal risks that's how ToCs work.
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Anyway, I fail to see how the patent grant is in any way applicable to me if I don't use patents and want to discourage their use.
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If you don't have your own patents, there's really nothing to see here.
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Unless you care about the stability and long-term viability of the open source ecosystem.
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Replying to @wycats @ArielR_IP and
As you said, Facebook is deciding to put its own interests above the community. Disingenuous to tell the community "nothing to see here"
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I'm referring to the immediate, practical, micro-level Q of: how does the license affect *me*. If you don't have patents, it really doesn't.
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Right, but maybe if you don't have patents (and therefore are a little guy) you care about the long term big picture.
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