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This is not limited to closed software. Remember the Chef developer who got all political and deleted his github. This is the new norm in software it appears.

This is not limited to closed software. Remember the Chef developer who got all political and deleted his github. This is the new norm in software it appears. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/chef_roasted_for_ice_dealings/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/chef_roasted_for_ic... Luckily it was something that could be easily remedied.

excursionist 7y ago
That doesn't seem like as big of a problem, because you, as the user of an open source library, can take steps to prevent such things from affecting you. Most places I've worked at have their own repos with copies of any maven/node/ruby/whatever dependencies used.