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Amazon Uses ReactJS Despite Patents Clause

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16 pointsblairanderson12 comments

Maybe Amazon has a separate cross-licensing agreement with Facebook.

Maybe Amazon isn't concerned if Facebook infringes on any of their patents. Have they ever enforced "one click ordering" or any of their other dubious "innovations"?

> 1. Install the react chrome extension

No need to even do that. Open up the console and look for the `React` or `ReactDOM` objects, they are on the window object...

But with the chrome extension you can see so much deeper into the react components! pretty cool to see the responsive components swap in an out on different browser sizes.

They don't have to be, though.

Does Facebook realistically have any incentive to remove the clause?

Is there a history of them enforcing it (and forcing a competitor to stop using React)?

The Apache Foundation does not permit it, so they'll probably have to debundle the patents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779881

I'm not particularly well-versed in how these things work -- does that mean Facebook would no longer be able to use BSD licensing for React since it's from Apache?

Amazon likely has a bigger army of lawyers than Facebook, and so isn't worried about having to rely on patents if they need to sue Facebook. Or they're willing to eat a few hundred hours of labor to change the frameworks being used for their web pages if they do need access to that patent portfolio.

Not that many smaller companies can say the same thing.

You think someone at Amazon literally said "Ehhh we have a bigger army of lawyers, lets use it"...???

I don't believe it!

What's the alternative? They didn't run it past Legal and opened themselves up to liability?

I'm making the (perhaps charitable) assumption they did run it past Legal, and Legal decided they could deal with the fallout if it came to pass.

2 days ago [Apache publicly disallows React](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779881)! I thought it was pretty interesting to see a freaking massive tech company completely ignore and utilize

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