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http://react-etc.net/entry/your-license-to-use-react-js-can-be-revoked-if-you-compete-with-facebook

Oh… I’m convinced that people at Automattic have evaluated this issue quite deeply, I dare say.

It seems that they don’t plan to compete with Facebook for quite a long time.

Or does it mean that they think that releasing Calypso under GPL make them safe from any litigation? Quite frankly I doubt it, but I’m not a lawyer so my opinion is not relevant.

People smarter than me already highlighted the issue and Automattic has already made a reasoned decision:

Paul Sieminski, General Legal Counsel for Automattic, responded to the ticket explaining why the company will continue to use React in its products.

As far as I can say it seems a policy similar to RedHat’s one: a defensive use of patents. May we call it a “patent cold-war”?

We don’t make software for free, we make it for freedom.

From Automattic website. Because ethic does matter.

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I was pretty sure that Dell XPS 13 may be my next machine. Now this Ars Technica review confirms my impression

 

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Hotjar Features – Connect All The Dots With One Powerful Solution.

Sorgente: Hotjar Features – Connect All The Dots With One Powerful Solution.

Visualize behavior – Understand what users want, care about and do on your site by visually representing their clicks, taps and scrolling behavior – which are the strongest indicators of visitor motivation and desire.

 

Eiffel, Javascript

Exiting the ivory tower

From “Web Development with Bootstrap 4 and Angular 2 – Second Edition” In one moment of compilation, a TypeScript compiler can generate a declaration file which contains only signatures of the exported types. The resulting declaration file with the extension .d.ts along with a JavaScript library or module can be consumed later by a third-party…

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