This story has been going around for a couple weeks. It's illustrative of some of the misunderstandings both the public and those of us in tech have. Free and

This story has been going around for a couple weeks. It's illustrative of some of the misunderstandings both the public and those of us in tech have. Free and Open Source software - of course you are allowed to break it, the insert malicious (or even useful) fixes. The author can do that - but so can anyone else. There's literally no moral or ethical problem with what Marak did. The confusion is that, using github is nothing to do with "Free and Open Source". Centralized package managers like node.js are not FOSS. You can do whatever you want from a copyright stance - but you can't necessarily expect publish it on someone else's platform or force others to use it. Their platform - their rules. Marak's "own personal" account is shown to, well be not really his own. Yawn - you thought micro$oft would be different? Freedom does include the "right" to be a dick, but the way that works is we've also got the right to fork, shun, banish, AND ignore you and take over "your" published works (which are not really "yours" are they?)