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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by amelius on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:44PM (#16683355)
> Less top talent will want to be associated with facebook.

I don't necessarily consider myself top-talent, but I'm personally avoiding facebook's open source projects (e.g. React) because I don't approve of their company values.

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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by manmal on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:50PM (#16683403)
FB‘s open source projects are one of the few things they are doing right, so why avoid them? AFAIK the licenses are ok, so they are interchangeable in the end as maintainers.
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by amelius on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:01PM (#16683477)
It's not the quality of the code I'm concerned about. It's more a matter of principle, and the fact that every use of their software possibly contributes to their reputation and appeal to highly qualified developers.
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by newnewpdro on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:09PM (#16683949)
Yep, participation is a form of advocacy.
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by tomc1985 on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:04PM (#16683511)
> AFAIK the licenses are ok

What about that patent license noncompetition thing? That's cool? Or did that get pulled?

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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by sushid on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:06PM (#16683526)
It's been changed.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/300798627056246/relicensing-...

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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by murph-almighty on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:17PM (#16683602)
It's only been changed for their most popular projects, though.
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by TAForObvReasons on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:57PM (#16683458)
React may have changed to MIT but React-Native and other projects still use the BSD+Patents license.

EDIT: this apparently was fixed last month.

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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by focuser on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:02PM (#16683489)
React Native has been updated to MIT too: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/LICENSE
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by mecha9 on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:03PM (#16683490)
Actually now React Native uses the MIT license, this was changed in February: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/26684cf3adf4...
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