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Well, I don't think we can trust NPM on being consistent. They gave away this guy's package to a corp, despite his protest just because they felt like it. I'm not arguing if it was the correct decision or not, it's just an arbitrary decision based on isaac's mood that day.

It's best to treat NPM as mutable and don't depend on it. For example, I check in node_modules to git, even though everyone says no, use shrinkwrap! Yeah, that would definately help here.

NPM is to blame here and people are right to make fun of the entire ecosystem around it. Also, It's just easy and funny.

Noone will start copying stuff around just because of this I believe. The micromodule ecosystem emerged because it works for people apparently. Devs will find ways to make it work better.




Not exactly, "just because they felt like it."

But rather because they didn't wish to lawyer up for a trademark dispute that they had no particular reason to want to be involved in. (One where there was a reasonable chance that they would lose.)




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