Should I tell that to my investors? That AFA matthewmacleod on HN knows, we are good?
> then all of the popular alternatives almost certainly infringe on them as well.
But the lawsuit would be against those alternatives directly and not my company? I'm not sure about this, but I'm not also sure why we should be taking advice about this issue from non-experts.
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But the lawsuit would be against those alternatives directly and not my company
We are explicitly talking about a situation in which you lose the right to use patented technology in React because you sue Facebook for violating your patents. But if you don’t use React, you don’t have a license to use those patents at all in the first place. You’re in no worse position than you were.