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Re:Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason by andreyf on Saturday September 09, 2017 @11:54PM (#15210495)
By "use patents as a weapon" you mean "ever plan to enforce patents against Facebook"? That's quite a stretch.

Still, folks more knowledgeable than me on this topic say it's not a big deal: https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revok...

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Re:Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason by namelost on Sunday September 10, 2017 @05:47AM (#15211514)
Many people around these parts reject software patents as immoral, because software is just applied mathematics and mathematics should not be patentable.

So yes, any use of a software patent offensively is malicious.

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Re:Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason by setzer22 on Sunday September 10, 2017 @10:00AM (#15212239)
Software can ve very far from mathematics. Your argument applies to algorithms, but personally I don't think that React falls under the category of algorithms (it may use algorithms, though).
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