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How VMware's Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source

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37 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 03:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.354s | source
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nailer ◴[30 Aug 25 14:42 UTC] No.45075078[source]▶
> “This is the npm left-pad incident but worse,” one developer wrote on Hacker News. “At least that was an accident. This is intentional.”

The left pad incident was not an accident. It was a revenge attack for the name ‘Kik’ being given to the Messenger program rather than the existing open source package..

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1. Arrowmaster ◴[30 Aug 25 15:07 UTC] No.45075309[source]▶
> After 18 years of providing free, production-ready container images to millions of developers worldwide, Bitnami was effectively ending its free tier.

There are some seriously questionable statements being made early in this article.