What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

copacetic@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml · edit-2 4 years ago

Optimistically, someone or a group will probably fork the project and keep maintaining it. It’s happened with projects like Ubuntu Unity, Ubuntu Touch, and most famously, OpenOffice, which was forked to become LibreOffice after Oracle screwed the original project over.

sopuffy@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

That article was from late 2019, so I guess it worked out in thr end.