Does anyone else feel Facebook is hell bent on attacking open source in order to gain a monopoly on it?

They are slowing replacing every industry standard tool with over engineered bullshit and it just gets lapped up like it's the best thing ever...EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME

Fuck you Facebook, i will never support you in your crusade against one of the things i hold closest to my heart.

yarn is nice... Don't know much about the rest.

@andrebreda Apparently Facebook don't either so they "invented" relay.

Sorry, what? Isn't this called embracing open source as the very fabric of their being? Not attacking. The fact is people want good software, well engineered, backed my developers and a team that won't just disappear.

@ThomasRedstone No, there licenses involve patents which is exactly the opposite of open.

If you do anything that conflicts with them you can kiss goodbye to your rights to use their code.

@nblackburn you can't have read the license on e.g react. It says that if you sue facebook over a patent, you lose the right to use react. Idk about others, but pretty sure they are the same.

@ThomasRedstone Patents are no place for open source, plain and simple.

@yusijs Not only Facebook. Also, you would lose access only to patents connected to React (and they have a lot of them).

@nblackburn how is it? The only condition on their grant of patents is that you don't sue Facebook for patent violation, at which point your patent grant is revoked.
Hardly seems unreasonable.
Most big tech companies dislike patents, but engage in them because it's necessary to protect themselves, the grant makes that pretty clear.

@atgg so don't become a patent troll?

@ThomasRedstone Open source is about freedom, patents are in a sense designed to take away freedom in order to protect something so in a way it creates a grey area as the two things shouldn't co-exist.

This is however only one issue and hardly the whole picture leading to me disagreeing with Facebooks actions as of late.

@Letmecode there's a lot of benefits for a box company to just open-source, it is in no way opposed to capitalism.
The simplest of benefits: the contributors
- lot of people
- they don't even pay them
- yet they are motivated to work

If the code secrecy is not business critical, no reasons to avoid open source

@Letmecode That and dominance over the market

@Letmecode yup, money is definitely the prime factor! Companies aren't all-evil, open-source isn't all-good :)

@Letmecode yes, but they've made the very sensible decision that solving the problems that are not their business logic is not something that needs to be kept secret, amd everyone benefits from it being in the open.
They're open sourcing the engine components, but keeping just how they build their engine secret.
Patents that are protected are against open source, but an unconditional release with the single exception to prevent patent litigation protects everyone. You might think that some other open source software that doesn't hold patents is more free, but if something about it is actually patented by someone else, you're introducing risk. If the same thing happens with Facebook projects, you've got protection, as who ever is trying to sue best be damn sure they're not using anything Facebook has a patent on.
They're not being corporate ass holes, they're doing the best to protect their interests, and those who wants to use the software they're decent enough to release.

100% dropped all Facebook API/Website and apps support, I don't use them, wont program for or with them and advice people to boycott them as much as I can.