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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by GrinningFool on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @02:26PM (#13231869)
> In four separate occasions, people tried to take control of my github organization and npm repos by complaining to github and npm suppo

THat blows my mind a bit. Particularly since forking a repository is not exactly a difficult thing.

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by drvdevd on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @02:32PM (#13231922)
This just sounds like an attempt to take control of a popular project. An attack.

[edit] an interesting vector: open source politics

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by beachstartup on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @02:48PM (#13232052)
running a company results in many of the same kinds of situations.

lots of people are crazy. they walk among us!

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