While standing up to ones values is all well and good. But let’s take this apart shall we?

1. Their first contact (Kik) wasn’t all that belligerent, was it?
2. They asked you what they could do to resolve the matter amicably, didn’t they? That sound like willingness to compromise, doesn’t it?
3. They _have to_ defend their TM, or they’ll loose it, won’t they?
4. There exist alternatives to a name-change, but that discussion never took place, did it? And the reason for that is not only them, but also you, isn’t it?
5. All that unpublished software is Open Source, isn’t it?
6. Being OS means anyone is free to republish it, aren’t they?
7. You took down not only projects where you were the sole owner, but also where you had been a collaborator/contributor, didn’t you?
8. Unpublishing a couple of hundred packages, was pretty sure to break a whole lot of NPM-dependencies, wasn’t it?
9. Breaking peoples work is breaking their trust in NPM, which you must have been aware of, weren’t you?

Now, you say you stand up to the corporates because: Power To The People, and all that. But what your action says is: My Way Or The Highway.

Exactly how does this benefit the OS-community or the principles of OS? How does it serve the feasibility of using OS in projects that looses real peoples their money, or even their lives if it just fails one day?

Familiar with the proverb: Cutting of your nose, to spite the face?