This is what happens when you mess with a coder

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by Sindy Cator on March 24, 2016 at 1:58 pm

A JavaScript dev named Azer Koçulu has been having a branding issue with chat app Kik – he’d created a project of the same name in the JS store NPM. This week, conversations broke down and in true open-source fashion, it’s all playing out in public. According to Koçulu: “After I refused them, they reached [out to] NPM’s support emphasizing their lawyer power in every single e-mail CC’ing me. @izs accepted to change the ownership of this module, without my permission. “This situation made me realize that NPM is someone’s private land where corporate is more powerful than the people, and I do open…