Should we try to imagine why React was open sourced at first?

Back then, it might be a fast way to improve it.

A faster better React, a faster better Facebook, open sourcing it might mean back then.

If the previous thoughts are someway correct, then we could remember that it was not the first aim of open sourcing React to be a great public tool for everyone. It could be a good consequence, but not a first objective.

And then if troubles began to arise, the "open sourceness" of React could, as it is happening, be harmed.

If, again, this chain of thoughts are in some way correct, we can conclude a couple of things:

1. React may not anymore need fast improvement, on Facebook eyes, at least not at the expense of handling troubles or lawsuits.

2. The community should open its eyes and know that a truly open source tool is better than a great one, but not "that" open sourced as it should be.

This is a long chain of thoughts, and the probability of a mistaken thought or a wrong analysis is big. So, this is only a "guess", a small opinion, to be criticized and further evaluated.