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An attack on publisher freedom and the power abuse/misuse by npm Inc. (medium.com/p)
11 points by V1 on Feb 26, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


You seriously cant see how having one thing named npm which manages JavaScript packages and a completely different thing named npmjs has the potential to confuse people? The standard format for googling a JavaScript library that might have other meanings is [libray]js.

You, the author of npmjs, created this problem four years ago by not exercising due concern for the namespace commons you were polluting and being lazy in not choosing a descriptive, unique name for your package. This situation is 100% your fault, and you should feel shame for what you did not indignation for someone else cleaning up your mess.

Open-npm-central. Npm-client-abracadabra. Pure-js-npm-client.

[domain]-[descriptor]-[giberish] is an easy algo to quicky name your stuff in a responsible way.


Dude just change the name! Can you imagine if you uploaded an app to the apple App Store that contained "Apple" in the name? They'd insta-shut you down.


It really IS confusing. You should rename it and everybody would benefit from it.




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