- The article clearly states what entities are affected - Currents, Sorry Cypress and Deploy Sentinel; it doesn't claim those are random package authors.
- Not all the listed packages are written by the dude or written and _THEN_ forked, we provided a detailed breakdown of each package origin. For example, @deploysentinel/cypress-debugger is a completely standalone, innovative software released more than a year before Cypress Test Replay and cypress-debugger
- The article lists all the blocked packages we were able to discover. We published the full list to be totally transparent. Obviously, we create and work on cypress-related packages - e.g. a vscode extension for cypress. There was also a rename from Cypress Dashboard to Cypress Cloud. NPM lists ~1.6K packages with "cypress-" prefix. Another example: we ran a survey on a community Slack channel with ~500 members to pick a name for cypress-debugger - the options were: cypress-debugger, cypress-debug, cypress-tracer; cypress-debugger won.
An interesting experiment would be to rename those packages. Do you believe they will be unblocked?
The dude also has some pretty nice namesquatted packages (cypress-vscode, cypress-debug) that he references in that article. It made me think that there was serious anti-competitive energy in there and that made me worry for the community.
I rolled back the tweet because it was getting too much traction... and I lost trust in the article once it seemed to be a personal thing that Cy was responding to with radio silence and legalese.
Once I realized the article was misleading, I deleted the tweets that drove the traffic to HN today.