There is a saying that even hell doesnt have the fury of a scorned woman.
A Kik lawyer asked him to delete it from npm.
My answer was no, Koculu explained.
Kiks legal team then approached npm CEOIsaac Schlueterand requested the name change.
Koculu responded by unpublishing all his packages from npm, which included the critical left-pad module.
The left-pad module had around 100,000 downloads per day and 2.5 million only in the past month.
The fight then spilled on Twitter and Reddit.
Kik, the messaging App has a different story altogether.
source: www.techworm.net