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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by CydeWeys on Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:37AM (#15324636)
WordPress runs 25% of all websites. That is huge. You're trying to trivialize it as being "just one project" when it's really one of the most widely used and significant projects out there. One decision that WordPress makes is worth tens of thousands of decisions from much smaller projects that aren't used very widely. WordPress is a many billion dollar a year industry in itself, and whether it uses React or not will directly contribute to many thousands of web developers out there learning it or not.
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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by epicide on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:22AM (#15331167)
You are trivializing the difference between "using" and "choosing". One is transitive, the other is not.
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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by CydeWeys on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:59AM (#15339220)
I'm saying that it doesn't much matter. WordPress is the largest player in the web platform ecosystem. The choices they make have huge consequences. Them choosing to use one library over another directly contributes to thousands of more developers using that library. The choice doesn't need to be transitive because developers using the platform don't have a choice of library -- they go along with whatever the platform people are using.
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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by ng12 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:40PM (#15341437)
Nobody is disagreeing with you, you're just talking about something different than everyone else in this thread.
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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by ng12 on Sunday September 24, 2017 @12:25PM (#15325316)
All of that is true but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about individual projects who decided to abandon React -- not the influence of said projects.
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