Is this what you’re saying: it’s silly to not want anything to do with a company because another company is worse in one specific way?
His quip about Oracle was completely irrelevant to the content of his comment. In my opinion, Facebook proved themselves champions of OSS when they relaxed their license on React (which is now vanilla MIT with no stupid patent clauses).
Except a patent clause actually gives you more protection, not less. That's why some other licenses explicitly include a patent grant, like the Apache license. I think the patent clause was a misunderstanding more than anything else. In any case, Facebook responded to what the community wanted.