• AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
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    10 days ago

    Probably because they are.

    The entire infrastructure of modern civilization rests on a single digit number of companies. How is this acceptable to anyone? Why is everyone just okay with this?

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      9 days ago

      Don’t forget about that guy in Alabama/Albanania/Malaysia or wherever who is the only maintainer of THAT small npm module which is part of Every major framework used everywhere.

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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        9 days ago

        Counter point: the world would be better off without node.js A better example is the guy who maintains curl.

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          9 days ago

          Hard agree on that.

          ‘1’ + 1 =11? WTF!