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Re: Explaining React's license

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That's not correct, the Web Component catalog is completely separate from Polymer. Polymer is a library to make it easier to implement web components. You can use Polymer without using any of the community's components.

What did he say that wasn't correct? He said he loves polymer because it gets him access to community made web components.. Made in Polymer...

He implied that https://webcomponents.org/ is part of Polymer, but it is not.

Re: Explaining React's license

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I love love love love love react as a technology, but this is just awful. I believe any developer not on Facebook's payroll still contributing to React or React native at this point has a moral obligation to stop. I personally feel like such a fool for not taking all this seriously before the ASF gave me a wakeup call. React is a trojan horse into the open source community that Facebook purposely and maliciously stee…

Well, I planned to learn more about React, but reading now this convinced me to learn Vue.js instead. It's under MIT license developed by a single person in addition to community's contribution. This link is rather interesting https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html#React

I haven't had to change to really play around with it, but cycle.js (https://cycle.js.org/) is another option alongside Vue and Preact
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