Faker.js is now a community controlled project

If there was a bug in his logic that caused an infinite loop in some scenarios he was under no obligation to fix it. While I think he should in that scenario, I would defend his right to leave it. Another maintainer could fix it, someone could fork the package, whatever.

I am not arguing he owed anything to anyone. I am arguing that he is not entitled to maliciously break things on people. He committed it knowing full way most packages would grab it automatically, most people are okay with that as if it breaks things they can go back a version no big deal. His package is so popular some people might not even realize that one of their dependencies relies on it.

We can argue about how much time you should invest in knowing your dependencies and checking every commit for them, until we are blue in the face. The reality is he knew most people just can't or won't especially in npm world.

There is no defending a malicious act. He is not entitled to commit code maliciously. OS works because we trust maintainers to do their best to have the best interests of the users at heart. The flip side of that is they are under no obligation to work on it. They can walk away at anytime.

If peoples idea of OS software starts to include that someone could do something malicious at any moment, that's the beginning of the end of OS.

The problem is if the person wants to get paid, then they need to use licensing that is more restrictive and sets the expectations for eventual payment. The MIT license is a "do whatever you want with my code as long as you don't sue for inadvertent mistakes" license. No one else is at fault for that license except for Marak. The expectation of doing what you want based on the license is inline with behavior. If he wanted to change behavior, he just has to change the license or don't go open source. You can't have your cake and eat it too ie. you can't have open source's viralness and expect everyone to pay. If you want a near guarantee that people will pay for your work when they use it, don't go open source. Open source is not about getting paid.

> You are mentioning several ways how this guy was able to collect money, yep, but again changing license would mean that somebody else will fork previous version and thats all.

Since we're on this subject, I'm going to remind you that Marak didn't come up with faker on his own. He ported it and maybe even the data from a ruby project that was also called faker. To my knowledge, he hasn't shared any of the monetary contributions to his project with the people maintaining the ruby version of faker.

If his software is so simple that someone can just fork it and gain an audience, then maybe it's too simple to replicate and too much of a commodity; but as I've already pointed out SugarCRM successfully transitioned to closed source and I believe redis has successfully transition to a more restrictive license. Neither of them messed with other people's projects. There's no excuse for the bullshit that Marak pulled. Zero. Changing the license is more simple than adding an infinite loop to waste CPU cycles.

> which at the start was cool and funny, but later becomes burden.

I've already written this, but most people just walk away instead of doing something malicious.

>>In no way do I "worship" Fauci.

Press X for doubt

>>You're projecting your own hero worship of Trump onto me.

Never voted for the man... I disagreed with him about 50% of the time, however I saw in real time the lies and misinformation the media was putting out.

>>It's you foaming-at-the-mouth Trump-worshiping Fauci-haters who are the deranged ones injecting disinfectants, popping horse dewormer pills, and drinking your own urine, instead of wearing masks and getting vaccinated.

Fully vaccinated, just do not support the mandates

//and for the record Trump also supports the Vaccines.. Much to the chagrin to part of his base

Also calling on of the most widely distributed human drugs, a drug that won accolades for saving peoples lives across the world a "horse dewormer" is unhinged conspiracy, and medical misinformation. Sure it may not be a treatment for COVID, that however does not change the reality that is a human drug, proscribed by doctors all over the world, and is infact on the WHO list of essential drugs...

>> disproven conspiracy theories that it was actually AntiFa who attacked the US Capitol

Where did I say that? There is clear evidence AntiFa violence all through out 2019, 2020, and 2021 with out having to talk about 1/6 protest turned riot.

>> So do you also believe the election was stolen from Trump, too, like MOST Republicans do?

Stolen in the sense you are talking about... No. However I do believe many states governors (on both sides) inappropriately (and IMO illegally) used their executive powers to change election laws under the guise of "emergency" to manipulate election turn out and other factors for their (or their parties) political advantage.

I also do not believe or support the narrative that voter ID is a threat to democracy, nor do I support or believe the narrative that the US has the most "secure" elections in the world.

>>Popehat's

Ahh yes... Ken White. another famous person broken by Trump. The one famed free speech advocate now fully supporting Censorship of all manner.