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I was writing some JavaScript code today and planned on using one of my all-time favorite packages. Faker.Js I ran NPM install and it installed version 6.6.6. But when I went to use it, I got an unexpected error message. I figured it was my fault and just the result of a breaking API change, so I went directly to the GitHub repo but noticed that there was something weird going on here. All the source code was removed and there was just one commit with a comment of end game and in the README. All it says is what really happened to Aaron Swartz um.
That'S actually a perfect question. If you don't know who he is he's an absolute legend who helped create RSS or really simple, syndication, the Markdown format, the creative commons organization and a website called Reddit. His contributions have a major impact on virtually every web developer out there. But there was one thing about Aaron that some people didn't like you see, he thought information should be free for everybody and he believed in that so much that he went into a storage closet on the MIT campus and downloaded a bunch of academic journals behind a Paywall on JSTOR or journal storage, they caught him doing this on camera and a few months later he was arrested. Journal storage.
The victim in this case was very reasonable and instead of going to court, they just had him return all the downloaded documents which he did. The U.S. attorney's office, though, wasn't nearly as understanding he was charged with a bunch of different federal crimes like wire fraud and computer fraud, where he faced up to 50 years in prison a while later, he was offered a deal by the feds, where he would only Serve six months in prison if he pled guilty to 13 different crimes, Aaron being the badass dude that he was rejected this ridiculous deal and instead opted for a trial where the feds would actually have to justify their overzealous pursuit of him. That'S the right thing to do if you believe in your cause, but it's also extremely risky. The feds have a reputation of railroading people to make an example, out of them like Ross brick of the Silk Road who will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Unfortunately, in Aaron's case it never went to trial because he would pass away by suicide on january 11. 2013.
It'S extremely sad to lose such a talented programmer, especially one who wasn't motivated by money, but rather a higher purpose of making information free and accessible to everybody. He would likely be appalled by the censorship that we see in social media today, which includes the very website he created now some people out there have speculated that, there's more to the story than meets the eye go back to bed America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired - here's American gladiators, watch this shut up, but now, let's get back to our original question, what happened to faker.js, if you're not familiar with, if it's a very popular library, with over 1 million weekly downloads, that is used To create random fake data, like names, phone numbers addresses and so on, I use it all the time when building demos for this channel, it's maintained by a GitHub user who I'm not going to mention in this video. This person highlighted a very important issue that many open source developers face in his words respectfully, I am no longer going to support fortune 500s. There isn't much else to say: take this opportunity to send me a six-figure yearly contract or, if work the project and have somebody else work on it. The response from the open source community was extremely positive.
The sad reality is that there are many open source contributors out there who are way under compensated for the impact of their contributions. Mega corporations startups and consulting firms all make tons of money on the shoulders of open source software. In most cases, they give nothing back. In return and in some cases, people actively exploit and steal code without following the proper open source licensing rules, the reality is that to make open source viable, you need to have a good business plan or you need to be paid a comfortable salary to make it Worthwhile and sometimes even that's not enough, billion-dollar companies like MongoDB and Elasticsearch are now releasing their software under a completely different, open source license. That makes it way more restrictive for big companies like Amazon Web Services to take their software and offer it as a commercial service. Maybe independent open source developers should do the same. Maybe bitcoin fixes this.
I'M not sure. Let me know what you think in the comments, but if you find yourself contributing to a library year after year, that has as many downloads as vue.js while making almost zero dollars from it, you might end up making your own endgame commit too