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Tuesday, 11 January 2022
quote [ in 2021 he built and launched fakercloud.com and started acquiring early users. Some of these users were programmers from a company called Retool, a VC-backed startup that had been a patron of the faker.js library as they used it in their own tech stack. According to Marak, within a matter of weeks Retool launched their own free variant of the fakercloud concept, using faker.js in its source code. ]
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mechavolt said @ 3:09pm GMT on 13th Jan
"Respectfully, I am no longer going to support Fortune 500s ( and other smaller sized companies ) with my free work.
There isn't much else to say. Take this as an opportunity to send me a six figure yearly contract or fork the project and have someone else work on it." Fuck yeah. |
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mechavolt said @ 3:11pm GMT on 13th Jan
The popularity of the faker.js library led to Github suspending Marak's account and npm restoring a previous version of the codebase, sparking fresh debate in the OSS community over whether such interventions are in the spirit of open source and whose fault it is if a deleted codebase breaks other people's projects.
You don't own anything. They own you. |
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