> If you host software for free and you don't like what people are doing with it, then I think you should be able to stop hosting that software. GitHub was the

> If you host software for free and you don't like what people are doing with it, then I think you should be able to stop hosting that software. GitHub was the host, he just deleted the project from his profile. But you're right, Chef should've precluded this as a possibility a long time ago. The only reason this was possible was lack of proper Continuity-of-Business setup, but even then they had a new repo up within the day so it's not all that much impact. Free PR for the involved, and free ad-dollars to those who choose to report on it.