The Man Who Broke The Internet is a headline that blames the developer who took down their stolen code. The Internet broke because of dickish greed by Bob Stratton on behalf of Kik Messenger owner Kik. And when the dev took down the code they were threatened over they had their project stolen from them. Nothing is fair and the people who make it unfair need to be shamed.
left-pad was not the code they were threatened over, but yea
ShamedSkinned
Flayed.
his tiny what?
Package. His tiny (NodeJS) package.
JFC NPM is such trash.
He was 100% correct in what he did.
Kik Interactive were total dicks and npm supported them.
Yet the lesson learned is that some random person might have control over their own code for a couple of hours and that would hurt business which is absolutely horrible. Think of the poor shareholders!
Yep.
This is why we self host any code we use, ensure we’re within licensing agreements and then code out anything that could fuck is this way.
Some of our work explicitly forbids fixing bugs upstream without an audit of what it tells and so we quickly fork and move past.
This dude did no wrong, it was his code and his package.
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