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The negligent part is relying on npm. If you want reliability then pay for it. Corporations crying about morality is just a smokescreen for them to avoid paying
by sharpneli 4y ago
The negligent part is relying on npm. If you want reliability then pay for it. Corporations crying about morality is just a smokescreen for them to avoid paying.
- shadowgovt 4y agoMost users of npm aren't corporations. They are individual developers or small operations taking advantage of a very clever ecosystem for distributed package management. The leftpad stunt hurt everyone in that ecosystem. It was dropping a stink bomb at a party because the host had offended him, but everyone in the room got to suffer the consequences.