Forum Overview :: NetHack :: Re: Email thread from guy at Kik

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Entropy Stew"]<a href="https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breaking-of-the-internet-3d4d2a83aa4d#.6fkd3mn45">Link</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4bnrn4/a_discussion_about_the_breaking_of_the_internet/">r/programming thread</a> I think they're both kind of dicks, but the the big takeaway is that package management systems that only have a single global namespace are stupid and lead to this sort of problem. -/ES/-[/quote] Kik disgusts me more, and I loved this observation from that thread you linked: [quote]And the letcherousness of these corporations is perfectly shown in this example. Kik are perfectly happy to use Azer's libraries for free to the extent where their whole product breaks when one of them gets removed - while at the same time threatening him with legal action over a new project he is creating.[/quote] Perfectly happy to leech off open source software, perfectly happy to pout like babies when they don't get their way. Perfectly happy to rely on software FROM THE GUY THEY THREATENED. Amazing. Sure, that dude is a petulant manchild, but still. ICJ[/quote]