Yesterday, a popular open-source package, Faker.js, was abruptly taken down from GitHub. Its readme simply said “What really happened to Aaron Swartz?”. Let’s take a look at why Open Source ...

Squires introduced the faker.js commit on January 4th ... draws attention to the moral — and financial — dilemma of open-source development, which was likely the goal of his actions.

In faker.js's GitHub README file ... or fork the project and have someone else work on it." Excuse me. While open-source developers should be fairly compensated for their work, wrecking your ...

Jan 18, 01:43 AM ET: The functional versions of the 'faker' project were forked and are now being maintained by a separate team of open source volunteers at fakerjs.dev, who have released a statement.

Faker.js was similarly sabotaged with the publishing ... Squires’ actions have once again raised the issue of unpaid open-source work that often plays an important role in the software ...

Libraries like Faker.js and Colors.js essentially act ... the ongoing tension between independent developers who create open-source software for free and large tech companies who integrate that ...

The developer of the open source library ' Faker.js ' also went out of control to destroy Faker.js that he developed due to the difficulty of monetization, but in response to this, Faker.js was ...

Some open source developers are able to successfully ... the developer of two popular npm packages, “colors” and “faker,” intentionally introduced changes to their code that broke their ...

Two open source libraries found on the GitHub repository ... The two libraries in question are called “faker” and “colors”. Colors has more than 20 million downloads every week, just ...