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Re:Entropic – A Federated Package Manager for JavaScript by cjbprime on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:57PM (#20185097)
No, I think the attraction to centralization is not only that it can provide short names, but that it can provide short names that everyone agrees on the meaning of.
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Re:Entropic – A Federated Package Manager for JavaScript by WorldMaker on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:01PM (#20185720)
Which is a fascinating echo of the arguments between proponents of AOL Keywords and DNS.
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