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Comment by kgraves

> I find it sad that a lot of foundational open-source software is created/maintained by trading/crypto/money laundering companies. But OTOH it's great that they at least contribute _something_ to the society!

React is unfortunately becoming more foundational than this project, and with it maintained by a company that was involved in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and so on.

This makes crypto / trading companies look like angels compared to what Facebook has done even though they made and open sourced React.

To that end, I don't see anything morally wrong with the former camp of companies supporting open source, (trading/crypto) since they didn't participate and amplify an actual genocide.

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