> Was this their primary motivation? > Was the intention here to cause someone harm? What the intention here malice? Yes. Removing / archiving the project – n

> Was this their primary motivation? > Was the intention here to cause someone harm? What the intention here malice? Yes. Removing / archiving the project – not malice. This, however is absolutely malicious: let am = require('../lib/custom/american'); am(); for (let i = 666; i < Infinity; i++;) { if (i % 333) { // console.log('testing'.zalgo.rainbow) } console.log('testing testing testing testing testing testing testing'.zalgo) } > Are they right to feel this way? Maybe, maybe not. However, is this malice? Reasoning about Marak's motivation or intentions does have anything to do with whether his actions were ultimately malicious. > Its an act of someone who is disillusioned, strained, and struggling. You might be right, but there were a lot of things he could have done before doing what he did, and when he did act, he did it with the intention of causing people distress, frustration and confusion. > ...its a lot more murky than this is an malicious act by a malicious maintainer acting in malice. We're really far down a semantic rabbit hole at this point. Ultimately, adding an infinite loop to a widely used package deliberately and without warning is clearly an attempt to 'cause ... distress to another.' There's no two ways about it. Sure, Marak likely felt under-appreciated, mistreated and taking advantage of by large corporations etc but those possible explanations do not absolve him of blame, or mean his actions were not unequivocally malicious. In the legal system, mitigating factors can lead to a lesser charge or a shorter sentence, but even if they do reduce the severity of the outcome, you're still guilty.