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Personally I would not want to work for a company that wants to retain the right to start a patent war with Facebook for unknown reason.

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What if the reason is that Facebook started a patent war with them? Is it fair that Facebook disables all of their opponents' patents, whether they are related to React or not? In my mind, that's not fair. If they promised to disable all of their patents, then that would be fair, but it's very one-sided.

What if Facebook legitimately broke your patent?

Then you should still be able to win if you're not using any Facebook patents on React.

If you do (I have no idea if Facebook has relevant patents on React that would harm you), then consider your allowing Facebook to use your patents a fair deal with Facebook allowing you to use theirs.

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