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Re:Facebook React.js License by capkutay on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:01AM (#12692864)
Yes it would totally make sense for facebook to effectively kill react (wasting millions of their paid engineering hours) and forever taint their developer community by using that clause to sue another company just because they compete. </sarcasm>

Hypothetically if you ever grow so big and frighten facebook to that degree, migrating off react would be an easy problem to solve.

Re:Facebook React.js License by bad_user on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:03AM (#12692885)
Hypothetically, when you're found to infringe a patent for a product that was already deployed, then the damage was already done and migrating at that point won't save you ;-)
Re:Facebook React.js License by capkutay on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:09AM (#12692936)
Right but this clause assumes you are the one suing facebook for patent infringement and unless your patent is along the lines of "we use react.js to do x", then you probably have the flexibility to port it to a different framework.
Re:Facebook React.js License by ergo14 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @12:59PM (#12694556)
BILLIONS, TRILLIONS of hours went into react /s Or maybe whole eternity... Why restrict yourself to just millions.