“The colors library receives over 20 million weekly downloads on npm alone and has almost 19,000 projects relying on it.”
Marak Squires warned in 2020 that Fortune 500s could pay him or fork his code. Nobody did either. So he pushed an infinite loop that prints LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY, and Amazon’s CDK broke with everyone else. Twenty million weekly downloads, all resting on one unpaid guy’s patience.