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by beagle3 3325 days ago
And they innovated in this space with the "facebook patent grant" -- they give away free stuff, with a patent grant that disappears as soon as you sue them.

And they're better at marketing than many - heard of the amazing new zlib replacement, Zstd? It's better in every way except one - unlike zlib (unconditionally patent free), it is only patent free as long as you don't sue Facebook. But almost no one is aware of that.