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Didn't GitHub or Twitter or someone force someone to give up @Kik or similar?


That was npm, which lead to a left-pad incident.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11349870 - Kik, left-pad, and npm (2016)


No, npm themselves chose to take the name away from someone and give it to someone else.




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