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by EdwardMSmith 3540 days ago
But utterly dwarfed by the cost of an offensive patent infringement lawsuit against a $300+ Billion company.
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morgante 3540 days ago
Exactly. If you're actually in a legal dispute with Facebook, the cost of rewriting your frontend to not use React is minimal.

It's not like React is a massive library with a huge surface area. Even a fairly complex application could be migrated to an alternative like Vue.js if the need arose.

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bdcravens 3540 days ago
> the cost of rewriting your frontend to not use React is minimal

Or a non-issue if you choose a framework that you feel has safer licensing.

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