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Why can't you uncritically take his side? Because company good, developer mean? If you want to say kik has a right to the three letter package name so be it but absolutely no one has the right to continue using someone else's work for their own gain. Especially not a company that threatened him with lawyers within three emails.

I have a hard time seeing your position here. Because of their actions they broke their own build and made a lot of folks in the open source community upset. Was it even worth it to waste the time fixing their broken build? To investigate the failure and replace a dependency of a dependency? To lose credibility in the community they've evidently just decided to become involved with? I really don't see how that's not worth 30 grand. They have a right to use their name but they don't have the right to use someone else's work.

I can see your point but as a passportless 21 year old I can't help but feel I'm missing out on something. I've never really experienced anything outside of the US. It's such an exciting prospect to visit somewhere exotic that looks nothing like the place I've always known, has completely different food, language, animals. Maybe the joy is temporary but it's still joy and I hope if I ever get the chance to travel it's an experience that I'll be able to look back fondly on, or worst case use the knowledge to reflect and come to a conclusion such as yourself.

I can definitely see that point of view at a certain amount of wealth however I see its primary function as security and stability. It really does buy peace of mind when you know that no one is going to take your shelter away, your car isn't going to break down in the middle of the night, you can keep the heat on, and you'll be able to stay afloat in an emergency.

Credit scores aren't an indicator for morals. Do you really have so much faith in the current credit system that you'd be willing to turn someone from a job they're otherwise qualified. The argument could be totally flipped on it's head. It's important to hire someone with a bad credit score (using it as a measure of wealth apparently) because they will value their job more and not do anything to risk losing it.