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▲ Meta releases an open-source developer tool (engineering.fb.example)
176 points by oss_optimist 5 hours ago | hide | 3 comments
trojan_horse_tom 5 hours ago | 48 points | parent | prev | next
Never accept open source from an ad company. It's a trojan horse. They open-source the tool to capture mindshare so your whole industry standardizes on their ecosystem and then they harvest the gravity. React was a psyop. I will not elaborate. (I will elaborate, at length, unprompted, forever.)
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mit_license_mike 4 hours ago | 9 points | parent | prev | next
it's MIT licensed, you can fork it and they have zero control over your fork
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trojan_horse_tom 4 hours ago | 75 points | parent | prev | next
The license is the bait. The control is cultural. They've trained a generation of devs to think the Meta way. The real telemetry is in your MIND. I run only software written by a maximum of one person who is dead and cannot betray me. My text editor was last updated in 1991. It is perfect because it can no longer change.
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