Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads
by _jal on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:18AM
(#20838824)
I get where you're coming from. But doing an annoying thing is always going to bring negative attention, and doing a novel annoying thing is going to get a lot of attention.
That attempting to make money by spamming diagnostic mechanisms was going to annoy people was inevitable.
> But instead of attacking the guy for trying, I really wish the discussion were
I wish they guy had spent energy on "how the community... can contribute back", instead trying to get a payday by stripmining trust.
I have a lower tolerance for this crap than others, but any code I catch doing things analogous to this gets banned from my environments and the author names noted. What else will they do to my machines if someone dangles a buck?
Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads
by raesene9 on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:35AM
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Out of curiousity, does the organization you work for contribute money to the Open source libraries it uses via existing mechanisms (e.g. gratipay, Github sponsors)?
That attempting to make money by spamming diagnostic mechanisms was going to annoy people was inevitable.
> But instead of attacking the guy for trying, I really wish the discussion were
I wish they guy had spent energy on "how the community... can contribute back", instead trying to get a payday by stripmining trust.
I have a lower tolerance for this crap than others, but any code I catch doing things analogous to this gets banned from my environments and the author names noted. What else will they do to my machines if someone dangles a buck?