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...Marak didn't force anyone to do anything. He just orchestrated events to temporarily inconvenience those who thoughtlessly parasitized his work without a sec
by salawat 5y ago
...Marak didn't force anyone to do anything. He just orchestrated events to temporarily inconvenience those who thoughtlessly parasitized his work without a second thought. I'm amazed people aren't more up in arms about Microsoft locking him out of his own GitHub, or reverting it or something? NPM has always hosted old versions of things, so it was symbolic in that sense.
Microsoft are the ones who flexed power here, not Marak. Marak momentarily caught people who should have known better by surprise. Microsoft abused their privileged position to do self-interested damage control.
- samtheDamned 5y ago> He just orchestrated events to temporarily inconvenience those who thoughtlessly parasitized his work without a second thought I understand his frustration but he explicitly gave everyone permission to do exactly that in the first place with the license.
- remram 5y agoShould have known better than to download and use his package, for its intended use, off of the Node package manager? If someone breaks into your house, do you also claim that they should have known better than to use off-the-shelf locks? Come on man.