[spdustin]

Agreed, that feels wrong too. But is npm supposed to be the recess supervisor in this metaphor, taking the ball back and giving it back to the other kids?

[alextgordon]

If he wants to control where people get his software, he should have published it under a proprietary license. Not saying he does, though.

[spdustin]

Fair enough. I would posit that he didn't ever expect that the npm folks would undo his actions, even if his decisions were/seemed rash.

[swang]

He doesn't care if anyone takes over the leftpad module.

He unpublished leftpad

Someone else republishes leftpad as a new owner

Since npm won't allow you to publish old versions, stuff is still broken since the depended on files have a hard dependency on v0.0.3

npm (the company) forces a republish on v0.0.3 or I guess an ununpublish.