Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears

Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that "it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented." The React Foundation will start with seven corporate members – Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software …

[Anonymous Coward]

> React Foundation will start with seven corporate members – Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel

Seems like 3 of those might be somewhat more ... influential than the others.

[Doctor Syntax]

Perhaps stacking all these under the Linux Foundation's wing is blurring its identity. If we need to have some overarching foundation perhaps we need a new one. Call it something like the FOSS Foundation.

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux foundation

FOSS foundation would be easy to confuse with the FSF, possibly to the point of encouraging a trademark dispute. And no, the FSF can't handle this because they're dogmatically attached to GPL, which world be unacceptable for many of the projects that have wound up within the Linux foundation.

The fact is that seeing up a foundation like this isn't easy. I mean it night be legally and financially speaking, but getting people to believe that the governance will be fair is another story. Attaching to the Linux foundation gets you a lot of community trust building for free. Kind of like the Apache foundation before it turned into mostly a dumping ground for projects that had been abandoned by their corporate sponsors.

[Anonymous Coward]

Really, I mean really:

"it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented."

I don't believe that is the reason. Are we supposed to think Meta have become caring? I would suggest the reason is, they want to reduce their funding of its development & maintenance but still want it advancing because of the massive investment already made. But good all the same.

[Dinanziame]

"It feels like React generally has an ongoing trajectory towards increasing complexity and features. For something that's effectively become the standard for frontend that's unfortunate,

Well yeah, frameworks are like batman in this matter. They die for a lack of users, or they live long enough to see themselves becoming bloatware.