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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by deepstack on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:27AM (#25032180)
He ought to keep the name, however there should be some way to keep track of the public forks via something that is github oriented. Maybe something in DHT like IPFS. It maybe something npm/yarn can work out.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by dannyw on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:55AM (#25032343)
Let's just use domain names?

ytld.org/youtube-dl

google.com/rust_icu

facebook.com/react

Don't have a domain name?

marak.github.io/faker

Not everything needs to be reinvented.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by deepstack on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:34AM (#25032615)
the whole point is the original author may not want to publish the forks on his domain. There ought to be independent 3rd party to keep track of the fork or a npm name that is not the author and not github (aka Microsoft).
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