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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 19:40:00 EST lnxw48a1
   Dev breaks all users of his code because he's angry about corporate freeloaders. https://nu.federati.net/url/284572 [www bleepingcomputer com]
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 06:03:34 EST lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/6425363/ [abc7ny com]
      
      Same guy, it looks like.
      
      Frankly, if you don’t want freeloading off your work, don’t use licenses designed to encourage freeloading., such as MIT. Use community building licenses like LGPL, GPL/GPLv2/GPLv3 and AGPL/AGPLv3. Or dual-license … LGPL for non-profits and a commercial pay-for-use license for profit-making entities.
      
      But I suspect that he has other issues.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 08:17:15 EST lnxw48a1

         in reply to
         Some people are angry that GitHub and NPM undid his modifications and locked his accounts. But if he's intentionally putting malicious code into a commonly-used public repository, that's the only responsible choice.
         
         If your chosen 3rd party software repository would not intervene in that case, it is a good reason not to use anything in said 3PSR.
      2. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 20:40:13 EST GeniusMusing

         in reply to
         Developer Bricks Open-Source Apps Colors and Faker, Causes Chaos
         https://gizmodo.com/an-open-source-developer-just-caused-a-whole-lot-of-cha-1848331944
         
         >However, Gizmodo was not able to find any independent corroboration that the bomb-Squires and coding-Squires are one and the same.