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"Zuck has so far open sourced and given the world" (twitter.com)
submitted 11 months ago by podified@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 29 points 11 months ago

Sorry, he wrote all these? Or did he just own lots of stock in a company that hired engineers who made these things?

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago

This is like giving Hitler a thumbs up because you saw him lean down and pet a stray dog…

[–] Gargari@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago

Engineers did that. Zuck just saw no business advantage to keep it private. He agreed to open-source them to popularize whatever they build in Meta to make hiring engineers easier, since they already know whatever they use inside Meta

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations, he's done some good things amidst the almost immeasurable harm that he has done to humanity as a whole.

[–] podified@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

I agree. I avoid React because I don't want to be opinion of Facebook influenced by being invested in its tech.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Google too open sources a mountain of code every year - most of it very good code. It doesn't make Google any less evil.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Zstd is great for sure

[–] podified@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it's why i'm fighting zstd :D it's a bit of an uphill battle though

lt does seem to be used on some major projects though https://lz4.org/

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you avoiding those projects just because they were created or funded by meta?

[–] podified@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

kinda, it started with quitting React partly because I preferred Vue and partly because of Facebook, but then I slowly extended it to others. I don't know if I'm avoiding them all, I will probably use Llama at some point.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 5 points 11 months ago

@podified

Now how many of them are not actually open source?

[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Man, the Opencompute foundation work just gets no love even from people to trying to simp Facebook's work in opensource.