I don't see the issue here. If the name is taken the lawful way (and Kik is a clothes store chain as well as a chat app, so it's even taken twice) why fight it or be angry about it? Just take another name.
That said the decisions by NPM are also hard to follow. Why allow someone else to take over ownership of a package? Why allow anyone to take down published versions of an open source package? If you publish open source stuff on my site I have all the right to keep that stuff in that version and share it with others. That's pretty much what FOSS is about, right?
That said the decisions by NPM are also hard to follow. Why allow someone else to take over ownership of a package? Why allow anyone to take down published versions of an open source package? If you publish open source stuff on my site I have all the right to keep that stuff in that version and share it with others. That's pretty much what FOSS is about, right?