Although, I can see how altering a repo under someone else's name rather than forking it is problematic. In this case I can forgive them as the repo owner was

Although, I can see how altering a repo under someone else's name rather than forking it is problematic. In this case I can forgive them as the repo owner was clearly acting maliciously and causing major problems for many others. We do need to figure out how this sitation should be dealt with in a transparent way in future.