I agree with your tweet. But I don't think copyleft software, or even permissive-licensed software with attribution conditions, is close to what many ill-informed people think "open source" means, either.
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Why did the author of the depending package bother to find, install, and use mkdirp, given the ease of reimplementing?
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Because the network effects of this kind of decentralizing are massive and make ecosystems robust. Many people don't want to go back.
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@npmjs gives us global distribution, a common namespace, a web interface, and a CLI for read and write. Why can't those network effects apply to developer comp?
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