#thoughts
You've probably already heard of Marak - an open source dev who corrupted his widely used repo (faker.js and colors) that in return blew up tons of projects that had it as a dependency / peer dependency.
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Mark's justification TLDR: world is unfair, monetising open source is hard.
This reminds me of a situation when someone started to add ads in a terminal and got into so much problems with the community.
This is an important precedent though, showing that we probably might be relying too much on open source and current module's versioning creates a room for blowups with just minor version auto updates.
At the same time, I can understand the frustration the guy had.
What do you guys think? Share in comments.
My humble opinion here is super simple - if you are not happy with the money you get for your work, then open source is probably not the right place.
PS I also find it interesting that he had a bug in his initial "fuck it all up" attempt
