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0 pointspluma9y ago0 comments

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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plumaOP9y ago· 1 in thread

I should point out we don't even know whether Facebook even has any patents for anything React does. And even if they do we don't know whether there are other libraries that do the same things and therefore infringe on those patents, making you liable if you use them.

It's software patents you should be worried about, not open source projects that try to offer you even the tiniest amount of protection from them.

Lazare9y ago

Plus, any patents Facebook does have on React technologies are quite likely to cover whatever similar technology you use instead.

> It's software patents you should be worried about, not open source projects that try to offer you even the tiniest amount of protection from them.

Amen to that.

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