[fantunes]

> Do you work at Facebook? Shame on you.

Does it apply to the people using its products, softwares, services?

What's the ethical threshold for using reactjs for example in this scenario?

[amelius]

By using reactjs you are supporting their R&D. It improves their attractiveness for top researchers.

[nindalf]

What if you use a website that uses reactjs? How culpable are you?

[amelius]

Less culpable.

[nindalf]

Thank you for making value judgements on our behalf.

[amelius]

Well, in this case "more culpable" doesn't make much sense, or do you think otherwise? Perhaps equally culpable would be an option.

Not sure what point you are trying to make, though.

[josefx]

Didn't they try to push some rather questionable licensing terms on react or do I confuse it with a different open source library? If it was then its users almost became another victim of facebook trying out where it can get away with abusing its position.

[iaml]

They did have a license with a clause allowing them to sue or restrict access to it legally, but they changed it to a more permissive one. Also, even if they did try to do anything, no one was stopping you from replacing react with inferno or preact, they have compatible APIs.