How KIKs Lawyers Broke NPM and the Node Ecosystem
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For those using NPM (the Node Package Manager) and notice that a lot of things have broken recently, there is a reason. Apparently the people at KIK wanted to own every package that they feel related to their name and after threatening to beat down the door of the actual owner of the open source kik package if he did not turn over his name to them, they turned to the NPM team themselves and forced the issue that way. In return, the maintainer of the kik package has decided to fully leave NPM and the community completely - taking his projects with him. Turns out, these were major projects and in return for placating a totally worthless corporation NPM has undermined the entire package management concept and made it clear that an alternative system is needed for Node.
Whoops. Bottom line, using NPM looks like a bad idea.
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The NPM project is now disregarding the wishes of individual publishers to cover up their catering to the desires of a single corporation. NPM makes the audacious claim that they are "putting the needs of the many over the needs of the few" which is adding insult to injury because that's exactly what they decided not to do that caused the whole situation in the first place. They are, at this point, outright mocking the developers.
https://twitter.com/seldo/status/712417019686100992?replies_view=true&cursor=ASCU99ID4wk
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WTF?
The needs of the many over the needs of the few - holy shit! bad day for open source everywhere.
