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Generalization of Hanlen's razor: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by laziness/greed/stupidity.

FB has GraphQL stable and doing exactly what they want it to do. Now they can pass it off to a foundation for maintenance and blame without having to pay out of pocket.

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GraphQL isn't a system per-say, it's a spec and many tools around it. Putting the spec in a foundation (with a few of those tools) gives the entire community certainty about the direction of the project. Hopefully that spurs more people outside of FB to commit to GraphQL.

The existence of the foundation is orthogonal to FB's internal investment and usage of GraphQL, which was and will continue to be significant.

>"per-say" -> "per se"

Right pronunciation, but it's Latin. :)

Thanks! At least I learned something today.

per se = "in and by itself"

Having given tutoring in Latin when I was 15, I'm always dying a little inside if I'm reading "per say".

"Generalization of Hanlen's razor: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by laziness/greed/stupidity."

I think OP was going for greed.

That seems an over-generalization--greed should counts as malice in spirit. [nit: Hanlon's Razor]

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