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> However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Github accounts of open source software are now for sale?
by insane_dreamer 2y ago
> However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account.
Github accounts of open source software are now for sale?
- esroyo 2y agoI don't understand that either. The original repo was owned by the Finantial-Times account [0]. For sure that account has not been sold. I would love to hear how the deal was made to include the repository transfer. It is really surprising. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230524161733/https://github.com/Financial-Times/polyfill-service https://web.archive.org/web/20230524161733/https://github.co...
- BandButcher 2y agosadly everyone has a price, its pretty much tech real estate many js devs have used that on their resumes/portfolio - "I own a 10-line library downloaded over 1 billion times!" ^^ pretty easy target to poach github accounts for mass malware spreading.