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This is pathetic and breaks my heart. Expecting something good from thieves is not very practical, Facebook the company started by stealing others dream. This days if you take a look at them, they won't let grow any other app for any cost. They bought instagram, whatsapp where they already was providing such feature but due to their earlybird list.

Also instead of contributing few tweaks into NPM they made a clone of NPM called Yarn, so funny.

Instead of contributing changes to PHP they made a clone of PHP called HackLang, i am laughing laughter :D

Facebook is a proven bad actor for all open source projects, and its time to be aware. One possible solution is to ban facebook from using any open source projects with a new license.

One day we will going to have F-Git (a copied version of git with some tweaks by facebook)

Snapchat denied to become a part of their monopoly cycle, they made a 100% clone of the product in facebooks every fucking platform. As a software engineer i found it very illegal and unethical, every maker should have good ethics, thats why facebook was unable to invent anything other than Poke feature on facebook itself.

Shame

If i were working at facebook i would definitely switch the company to better one, who won't force me to copy others.

However, i am upset, because the technology that i loved most was just a typical facebook product comes with hidden payloads. I would definitely stay 100% away from all facebook products. It also gives us a free lesson how a evil a tech company could be.

Alternatives: My personal list of alternatives are,

React = Vue JS

React Native = Native Script

All i can do is this: https://twitter.com/rakibtg/status/892784442476904449



> One day we are going to have F-git

Funnily enough, their source control is actually a counter example to your assertions here.

Facebook reportedly don't use git but rather mercurial, and seemingly have contributed significantly to that project. See this for example https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...

Note, I don't work at Facebook or have any affiliation or knowledge of how they operate, I'm just taking the contents of this blog post at face value.


I'm really thankful for Yarn.

npm is the buggies software I had to deal with! Also God forbids if you want to fix a bug! First the code is absolute piece of poop and when you figure all this "smart" hacks they wrote and fix it you will have a hard time getting it merged. They close prs and force their way of doing things without caring about community feedback. Take for example that stupid error output or randomly running prepublish script for example

There are so many bad architectural decisions in npm that there is no way you can fix it by a few changes.


>Also instead of contributing few tweaks into NPM they made a clone of NPM called Yarn, so funny.

npm is buggy and seems to need a lot more than a few tweaks. Some time before Yarn came out I was wondering why no one had yet decided to make a direct competitor / rewrite npm from scratch.


Caffe and Caffe2 is also a good example!


What - Caffe2 is a Facebook project?

I used the original Caffe and thought it was built by Berkely University - Caffe2 only shared the name I guess?


Yes, just like he mentioned for the other projects. It even has the PATENTS file added to it: https://github.com/caffe2/caffe2/blob/master/PATENTS


They hired the author.




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