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0 pointsdragonwriter9y ago0 comments

> So many big companies with tons of lawyers use React... surely if they do it it's fine.

At best, that demonstrates that its fine...if you have lots of lawyers.

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sotojuan9y ago· 2 in thread

...but so many smaller companies and startups use React. Personally all of my employments (five at this point) have used it and none had more than twenty programmers. Has it actually been an issue in real life?

romanovcode9y ago

For example: You make something remotely similar to Instagram and it takes off. FB sues you and takes all your reacts and natives from you.

You left with nothing.

pluma9y ago

Or FB sues you over literally any patent you happen to be infringing. They're a big company, I'm sure their patent war chest has a few zingers for cases like these.

Oh, and your scenario only works if you sue FB/Instagram over your patents first. They can't revoke the patent grant willy-nilly except in retaliation.

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