Sorry, he wrote all these? Or did he just own lots of stock in a company that hired engineers who made these things?
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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This is like giving Hitler a thumbs up because you saw him lean down and pet a stray dog…
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
Google too open sources a mountain of code every year - most of it very good code. It doesn't make Google any less evil.
Zstd is great for sure
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/
Are you avoiding those projects just because they were created or funded by meta?
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.
Man, the Opencompute foundation work just gets no love even from people to trying to simp Facebook's work in opensource.