• drone621
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    3 years ago

    Honestly, good for him. Yeah, I’m sure it was an inconvenience for a lot of people that didn’t necessarily do anything wrong, but it’s funny how it’s an open source “community” when people are profiting off your free labor without even thinking about where libraries came from, but when you need some support and withdraw that gift you’re the enemy.

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      3 years ago

      I genuinely laugh at online “communities” for that very reason.

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      3 years ago

      If you don’t like it when “people are profiting off your free labor without even thinking about where libraries came from”, don’t use free licences…

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        Sure, but just because you’ve open-sourced something at some point, doesn’t mean you have to maintain it for free forever. If we require that level of commitment, no one is ever going to open-source anything.

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          3 years ago

          Then why not relicense it at that point?

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          3 years ago

          The responsible thing would be to walk away and let others fork and maintain it.

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    3 years ago

    GitHub has reportedly suspended the developer’s account.

    Microsoft: You’re fired! (revokes all “free” services)

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    3 years ago

    I genuinely feel bad for the guy. Got screwed over by corporations freeloading off his work with no chance of ever holding his own against them.

    While I don’t condone what he did, I completely understand his frustration and why he acted out like this.

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      3 years ago

      Dig a bit deeper into cryptobro there. This is the guy whose apartment burned down because he had a bunch of bomb-making equipment, some of which caught fire.

      He’s not an innocent victim of anything.

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      3 years ago

      Yes, I don’t know jack about programming, but the Dev was complaining about strong frustrations with NPM 4 years ago already.

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        3 years ago

        He was also building bombs in his apartment until some of his bomb-making materials caught fire.

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          3 years ago

          Yes I saw that you posted that further up. I get the feeling you dislike him, but my comment was added to one about NPM and I’m not sure building bombs is relevant on this chain of replies.

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            3 years ago

            It indicates a certain kind of personality that calls into question his mental state, surely? Or do you think mental disorders are compartmentalized into “work” and “home”?