What really happened to Faker.js? ↦
Fireship with a brief (3:48) rundown of the most recent instance of a popular open source library maintainer removing their code from public repositories in response to corporate (ab)use of their free labor:
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 Software can be a bad deal for many independent developers.
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