Semi-unrelated, but isn't it ridiculous that they'd take away a persons ability to be productive while in prison? Give the lad a computer to work on if he wants to while in there.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2021
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isn’t it ridiculous that they’d take away a persons ability to be productive while in prison?
If he's in the US, he's probably in a private prison being forced to work for free. So he's definitely being productive in the money machine.
Cynicism aside, prisons in most countries are just meant to punish (it might even be said they're a form of revenge), not rehabilitate, no matter what their propaganda tells you. There's a reason reoffending rates are so high especially in the US, because their prisons basically do nothing to prevent crimes other than instill fear of going to prison.
This library is/was infamous for printing a message such as "the author of this library is looking for a job" to the npm log. Predictably, he got pilloried for it.
The problem isn't that someone does that, but that they feel the need to do it.
How was the reaction not to open a Patreon/Liberapay so the guy didn't need a job? I don't know but this seemed to have been a pretty important thing? Downloaded 26M times, if 10% of downloaders gave $1 then that would have been $2.6M!
This is the problem of projects with just a maintainer or a few maintainers. It could be even worse in most cases.
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.
That article was from late 2019, so I guess it worked out in thr end.
Relevant xkcd
there's an xkcd for everything
Well I hate to say this, but of course it was a JS library. JavaScript is just a language for degenerates and evil people. 🙃