[warent]

Well, aside from money though have you seen some of the issues created on git repos and their responses? The software is OSS and free, yet there are countless people who use it acting like they're high profile businesses deserving white-glove treatment and they'll totally take out their anger on a maintainer.

[throwaway_9168]

To counter your point, you might remember the React team's about face when probably their largest benefactor in terms of free goodwill, Wordpress, threatened to drop ReactJS for its ambiguous license. I would think it matters a lot to FB right now that they don't do anything remotely annoying to the community.

I would be willing to bet that if Facebook adopted an attitude of "screw it, lets just stop responding to these idiots" that will make even fewer people want to work at Facebook right now, given all the bad press these days. I bet if you ask people why they are still continuing at Facebook these days, a fair number would say something like "Yeah, at least I can work on open source projects".

If anyone at Facebook reading this wants to go for a dare, why don't you try dropping support for a high profile open source project like ReactJS and see if that affects the candidates entering your pipeline.

[lhorie]

> why don't you try dropping support

I hear that sort of happened w/ ReasonML. Apparently Jordan still maintains it (because he's a prolific OSS guy like that), but FB itself is not investing in it, and is instead doubling down on Flow.

Jest is another project that largely yielded governance to its community.

You gotta understand that the number one incentive for someone to interview at FB is compensation. OSS opportunities are often a minor perk, and many (most?) employees don't do high profile OSS at all.

[turbo_fart_box]

Doubling down on flow? Has TS not won?

[lhorie]

Not at Facebook. Yes elsewhere

[boxy_brown]

Can you share some examples?