On March 22, 2016, programmer Azer Koçulu took down the left-pad package that he had published to npm (a package manager for JavaScript). Koçulu deleted all his packages after a dispute with Kik Messenger, in which the company was granted control of the package name kik by npm, Inc.
On March 22, 2016, programmer Azer Koçulu took down the left-pad package that he had published to npm (a package manager for JavaScript). Koçulu deleted all his packages after a dispute with Kik Messenger, in which the company was granted control of the package name kik by npm, Inc.
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