npm Un-un-publishing code

[Bleak Morn]

“This action puts the wider interests of the community of npm users at odds with the wishes of one author; we picked the needs of the many.”

 

SOURCE: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5YpkNm/:1ToVke+U:iL!paN0y/qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code

 

So these guys recognize the fake property rights of a "trademark" but then ignore the property rights of the programmer who took his property and went home.

 

Seems kind of inconsistent, IMHO.

 

Also, an interesting write-up of the philosophy behind the "needs of the many" Spock quote here: https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2013/09/spocks-illogic-the-needs-of-the-many-outweigh-the-needs-of-the-few/

[rosencrantz]

it’s important to understand that almost all software is built on top of other software, which also depends on other software. Loading your own app might require a certain set of packages from npm, but those packages may require their own sets of packages, and so on. 

 

That's simply not true. Good programming languages have standard libraries that include the most common functions. If your language does not have that, it's crap pure and simple. Also, if you have to use a package to check if a number is positive I have serious doubts about your proficiency as a coder. 

[Bleak Morn]

That's simply not true. Good programming languages have standard libraries that include the most common functions. If your language does not have that, it's crap pure and simple. Also, if you have to use a package to check if a number is positive I have serious doubts about your proficiency as a coder. 

In this case they were supposedly using it to append values to the front of a string... :/