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by appleflaxen 3747 days ago
It seems like it was less the developer than the package system.
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"When NPM took Kik away from the developer, he [...] unpublished all of his NPM-managed modules"
Which was his right as the publisher of the modules. Open Source < > Public Domain.
Which should make anybody depending on such "publishers" think carefully about the effects of such dependencies.