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Valentin Sawadski Feb 14, 2023

Holy Crap, this message from the #corejs maintainer is something else!

“I wanted to make the life of all JS developers easier and in November 2014, I published core-js as an open-source project. Maybe it was the biggest mistake in my life.”

You have to read the rest of his story yourself. Let’s just say it’s crazy he suffered through so much, while maintaining one of the webs most popular libraries for free!

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md

#opensource #oss #funding

core-js/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md at master · zloirock/core-js

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Shriram Krishnamurthi Feb 14, 2023

@vsaw Amazing.

The Creative Commons NC (NonCommercial) option seems like it would be really useful here. You can use it…non-commercially. If you want to use it commercially, license it. All these major companies can figure out how to extricate themselves from the dependency hell that leads to packages like this, or…pay up.

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Steve F.

@shriramk @vsaw this would de facto make the library non free and unusable by js frameworks. As this is a library that most people don’t use directly it would not solve his problem.