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by jbreckmckye 3192 days ago
It is very good, but I wonder what their intentions are. Is it to help hire talent?
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matmo 3192 days ago
Assuming you're referring to the licensing part, it's probably because they've gotten a lot of public backlash for their previous licensing scheme that has caused some to avoid React altogether.
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jbreckmckye 3191 days ago
No, I mean - open sourcing their software. I don't know what their goal is as a company.
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gt2 3191 days ago
Sometimes to attract talent, sometimes to brings free work to a project.

Other times it's lock in for related technologies (current or future plans).

Some have speculated that it's a legal trick, like the problem everyone was insinuating with the React license before the recent change.

Anyone else have reasons I'm missing?

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aickin 3191 days ago
Three other (somewhat related) reasons I’ve heard stated by FB folks:

1. Makes it easier to identify talent out in the world that they want to go after.

2. Raises the technical reputation of Facebook, making it easier to get candidates to say yes.

3. Makes it easier to ramp new employees up on Facebook’s stack if they are already familiar with a lot of it from open source.

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