WordPress has adverse reaction to Facebook's React.js licence • The Register
"Automattic, the company behind hosting service WordPress.com, has decided to stop using Facebook's React.js library, citing legal concerns.", "That specification concerns Facebook's own patents and is designed to protect The Social Network™ from what it sees as “meritless patent litigation”."
' It’s their fight.” ®Sponsored: The Joy and Pain of Buying IT - Have Your Say', "WordPress' founding developer Matt Mullenweg – who also founded WordPress.com – explains the decision by noting that Automattic has used React since 2015, when it put the code to work in the “Calypso” update of Wordpress.com that emerged in 2016.", "At the time, WordPress.com's legal people felt there was no problem with React and developers liked it so much they planned to use it again in another big update called Gutenberg."
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0 u/derram 18 Sep 2017 17:40
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"Automattic, the company behind hosting service WordPress.com, has decided to stop using Facebook's React.js library, citing legal concerns.", "That specification concerns Facebook's own patents and is designed to protect The Social Network™ from what it sees as “meritless patent litigation”."
' It’s their fight.” ®Sponsored: The Joy and Pain of Buying IT - Have Your Say', "WordPress' founding developer Matt Mullenweg – who also founded WordPress.com – explains the decision by noting that Automattic has used React since 2015, when it put the code to work in the “Calypso” update of Wordpress.com that emerged in 2016.", "At the time, WordPress.com's legal people felt there was no problem with React and developers liked it so much they planned to use it again in another big update called Gutenberg."
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