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This is fucking irresponsible. If you have problems with business using your free code for free, don't publish free code. By sabotaging your own widely used stuff, you hurt not only big business but anyone using it. This trains people not to update, 'coz stuff might break.

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BleepingComputer

@BleepinComputer

Jan 9

Scoop: Developer sabotages 'colors.js' and 'faker.js' open-source projects, breaking thousands of projects, in retaliation against big businesses exploiting open-source - @Ax_Sharma bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/

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I think it's time for people to switch to AGPLv3 which would make corps either pay the developer for a version with a different license or make them open source their stuff too. Which is a win-win in my eyes.

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People should be free to license their work any way they want. It's their work, after all. But licensing it for free, then getting angry that people use it for free and trying to screw them up is irresponsible.

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Agreed, but the same applies to people choosing to use hobbyist software explicitly licensed to them as having no guarantees or warranty of any kind. They could have paid for a license / support. An ecosystem pulling in thousands of hobby projects as dependencies is broken...

6:46 PM · Jan 9, 2022Twitter Web App

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