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What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Optimistically, someone or a group will probably fork the project and keep maintaining it. It's happened with projects like Ubuntu Unity, Ubuntu Touch, and most famously, OpenOffice, which was forked to become LibreOffice after Oracle screwed the original project over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

That article was from late 2019, so I guess it worked out in thr end.