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History is littered with counter-examples and great successes. Each generation of company is more efficient or solves more complicated problems than those before it. Facebook itself is an industry leader in open source innovation, which is why their product is so smooth. But not all companies specialize in hard tech, and all companies get old.


>Facebook itself is an industry leader in open source innovation

In the sense that they gave us React and couple JS tools? What are their other "industry leading open source innovations"?

That's hardly a major "open source innovation". Heck, Google itself has produces 2-3 similar JS pieces (Angular, GWT, Closure compiler, Dart, etc).


> In the sense that they gave us React and couple JS tools? What are their other "industry leading open source innovations"?

OpenCompute (http://opencompute.org), Hack (http://hacklang.org), Phabricator (now spun off, still OSS, https://secure.phabricator.com), GraphQL (http://graphql.org)...none of these are JS tools, all have had major industry impact. GitHub's entire API, for example, is now GraphQL based. And that's just a small sampling.

I can't quite decide if you're being deliberately provocative or just misinformed.


>I can't quite decide if you're being deliberately provocative or just misinformed.

Or maybe I genuinely disagree in your assessment that any of those technologies (apart from GraphQL, and that is still nowhere near major league) had any major "industry impact".




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