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comment by o11c
o11c  ·  3160 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Changes to npm’s unpublish policy

TL;DR: you can no longer unpublish your own packages, but we can still do it against your will.





Cedar  ·  3160 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nail on the head. People have always warned against these systems, make it centralised and you are handing over control of your intellectual property and by proxy some part of your authority. Which is exactly why Linux package managers let you use multiple sources with no barrier to doing so.