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By "use patents as a weapon" you mean "ever plan to enforce patents against Facebook"? That's quite a stretch.

Still, folks more knowledgeable than me on this topic say it's not a big deal: https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revok...

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Many people around these parts reject software patents as immoral, because software is just applied mathematics and mathematics should not be patentable.

So yes, any use of a software patent offensively is malicious.

Software can ve very far from mathematics. Your argument applies to algorithms, but personally I don't think that React falls under the category of algorithms (it may use algorithms, though).

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