WordPress to ditch React library over Facebook patent clause risk

Discussed 5 days ago (540 points, 200 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253781

Note this TechCrunch post is dated September 15.

I know a number of start-ups who do use React, or plan to use React in the near future, sometimes for pretty critical pieces of their product.

I think this puts a cloud over that. I don't think necessarily that React users are at any legal risk, but the problem is valuation. If you're looking to acquire a company that has a product that significantly uses React, why wouldn't you use this as a way of beating down the price? In some cases it could be seen as too big a risk altogether - if you're a GitLab or whoever, and you have an explicit stance against the React license, you're not going to acquire a product that uses React unless you have a plan in place to replace React.

I think that's a pretty sad state of affairs...

> Florenzano is now celebrating the decision to move away from React…

I'm confused as to why you would _celebrate_ this.

Unless you're a competitor to React and they're switching to you, who are you to care who else uses React?

Good move by Wordpress. The more Facebook says it's open source, there's no risk, it's just to stop bad litigation, the more urgent these decisions become.