> "awareness". Awareness of what? His trademark infringement?
Alleged trademark infringement. Since his project was unrelated to Kik's business, it is questionable whether it was actually trademark infringement or over-zealous lawyers.
Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules
by nileshtrivedi on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:44AM
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What if left-pad was trademarked? It's not the developer who decided to throw a tantrum, the lawyers of this company did.
Awareness of how fragile npm is, both in terms of trusting it to always be available for your deploy but also on the mutability of packages there. What if someone unpublished one single well used package and someone else snapped it up to publish malicious code, it could have taken months before somebody noticed.
Imagine this from the perspective of a hypothetical user. He's cranky and on a tight deadline, and suddenly his project is broken because some dumb dependency three layers away that he's never even heard of broke because some guy decided to throw a tantrum, and now his software is broken and he has to emergency rewrite part of it. All because this guy didn't bother to check if "kik" was a name he was allowed to use.