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What's the economics behind many tech companies sharing their tools?

Those answers are just awesome and exactly reflect the way how modern software business works. Please - big IT corporations - breath, understand, embrace and internalize what's written here. It should be part of every company strategy!!

Re: Free resources made by designers at Facebook

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So, if you are a designer or a product manager, you cannot use Linux. I wish that Facebook, with all its money, could have supported cross platform design frameworks.

What do you mean by design frameworks? Tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch?

Re: Free resources made by designers at Facebook

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Facebook are nailing it at the moment. I love the look of Origami ( http://facebook.github.io/origami/ ). I wonder how long until it can export to react(-native) components...

Wow, that's great! I have missed something like that, not just for designers and developers to connect, but also for single developers to reach themselves. Sometimes I want to visualize for myself in order to see what works, and to see what I want.

Re: Free resources made by designers at Facebook

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The license on the IOS GUI: http://facebook.github.io/design/license.html

You can't use any of this in an actual application. So, I make a mock up and show it to someone and then my finished work has to be different from the mock up to avoid copyright infringement? In that situation, I would say I have intentionally defrauded my customer(/employer) and they should refuse to pay (or fire me) and win.

(More likely still, I use them anyway since a graphic artist has made the mock-up and I presume they created or correctly sourced the graphics.)

Re: Free resources made by designers at Facebook

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't. I neither have the resources nor the ability. However, locking it to the Mac ecosystem eliminates possibilities for third world countries (like India and China) which are using Linux right from schools.

I believe the appropriate idiom here is: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth".

> "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

The winners apparently write both the history and the idioms. The Trojans would have done well to look a gift horse in the mouth.

A wooden horse can be full of physical soldiers and a digital horse with legal ones.

Re: Free resources made by designers at Facebook

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the appropriate idiom here is: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth".

> "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" The winners apparently write both the history and the idioms. The Trojans would have done well to look a gift horse in the mouth. A wooden horse can be full of physical soldiers and a digital horse with legal ones.

Looking at a real horse's teeth shows how worn down they are over age. Looking at a horses teeth is to check its age.

The idiom could be modernized to: 'dont check the odometer of a gift car'

Re: Free resources made by designers at Facebook

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The license on the IOS GUI: http://facebook.github.io/design/license.html You can't use any of this in an actual application. So, I make a mock up and show it to someone and then my finished work has to be different from the mock up to avoid copyright infringement? In that situation, I would say I have intentionally defrauded my customer(/employer) and they should refuse to pay (or fire me) and win. (More likely stil…

Summary: I don't see an actual problem here.

"...found in the public release of iOS 9." Facebook can't claim copyright on Apple's UI elements by simply recreating them in a Photoshop mockup.

Upon further reading of the license, I see that it says you can't embed the Facebook Design Resources in an app. In other words, you can't redistribute their Photoshop files.

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