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You agreed with kik threatening legal action against the publisher of a npm module in an unrelated trade category, who after unfairly being given it by npm let

You agreed with kik threatening legal action against the publisher of a npm module in an unrelated trade category, who after unfairly being given it by npm let it lapse into a security vulnerability that npm then had to unpublish? "Protection" indeed. https://www.npmjs.com/package/kik https://www.npmjs.com/package/kik

jimnotgym 5y ago
I also liked that they reached out to him first. I think he was a dick the way he answered.
- supermatt 5y ago
  Who was the dick? Kik: Give us your package name Azer: No im using it Kik: not being a dick, but give it to us or we will start legal action Azer: That is being a dick.. Kik: (ccs npm) we will compensate you Azer: it will cost 30k because you are being dicks Kik: (ccs npm) he is breaching your terms by calling us dicks, please give me the package name Npm: Here you go kik, have the module name. Kik: Thanks npm. Azer: ????? https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breaking-of-the-internet-3d4d2a83aa4d https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin... To clarify, they had NO RIGHT to the name. At the time, their trademarks did not cover the relevant category [1], it wasnt until a MONTH AFTER the dispute that they registered in a category that could even potentially cover its prior use [2]. NPM just gave it to them because they felt like it, not because they were obliged to. NPM even made a statement to this effect at the time. NPMs choice of course (well, Isaacs at the time) - but lets not pretend this was about trademarks - this was corporate bullying. [1] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:u683la.2.31 (sep 2015) [2] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:u683la.2.32 (apr 2016)
  - jimnotgym 5y ago
    That's great. You can really make people look like dicks by deleting half the words from the conversation.
    - supermatt 5y ago
      i linked the conversation for you to read. I paraphrased. was it the "fuck you" in response to the legal threat that bothered you so much, because i didnt cut much else of substance.

jimnotgym 5y ago

I also liked that they reached out to him first. I think he was a dick the way he answered.

supermatt 5y ago
Who was the dick? Kik: Give us your package name Azer: No im using it Kik: not being a dick, but give it to us or we will start legal action Azer: That is being a dick.. Kik: (ccs npm) we will compensate you Azer: it will cost 30k because you are being dicks Kik: (ccs npm) he is breaching your terms by calling us dicks, please give me the package name Npm: Here you go kik, have the module name. Kik: Thanks npm. Azer: ????? https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breaking-of-the-internet-3d4d2a83aa4d https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin... To clarify, they had NO RIGHT to the name. At the time, their trademarks did not cover the relevant category [1], it wasnt until a MONTH AFTER the dispute that they registered in a category that could even potentially cover its prior use [2]. NPM just gave it to them because they felt like it, not because they were obliged to. NPM even made a statement to this effect at the time. NPMs choice of course (well, Isaacs at the time) - but lets not pretend this was about trademarks - this was corporate bullying. [1] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:u683la.2.31 (sep 2015) [2] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:u683la.2.32 (apr 2016)
- jimnotgym 5y ago
  That's great. You can really make people look like dicks by deleting half the words from the conversation.
  - supermatt 5y ago
    i linked the conversation for you to read. I paraphrased. was it the "fuck you" in response to the legal threat that bothered you so much, because i didnt cut much else of substance.