As expected Facebook caves over its licencing.

As expected Facebook caves over its licencing.

This decision comes after several weeks of disappointment and uncertainty for our community. Although we still believe our BSD + Patents license provides some benefits to users of our projects, we acknowledge that we failed to decisively convince this community.

If there’s one thing more powerful than a globe-spanning Silicon Valley behemoth it’s a tidal wave of developers abandoning your product. Developer mindshare is something a tech company can gain and lose in just a matter of months.

In the wake of uncertainty about our license, we know that many teams went through the process of selecting an alternative library to React. We’re sorry for the churn. We don’t expect to win these teams back by making this change, but we do want to leave the door open.

Here is the proposed mechanism of UBI in a capitalist society.

Here is the proposed mechanism of UBI in a capitalist society. Clearly there’s enough money concentrated at the top to support everyone if it was redistributed. What I have never understood though is the mechanism by which this expropriation was meant to happen. What should compel the mega-rich to hand over their “hard earned” loot to the tax man? Why should they do it if they hold all the cards and the rest of society is effectively dependent and put on the dole?

Fear of rioting and revolution was a reasonable fear that inspired the redistributive systems of the past but something makes me think that this will be less of a issue in the near future as tech oligarchs start to employ all the power of big data and machine learning to consolidate their control over the plebs.

Originally shared by Jeff Zahari