Looks cool. I am personally looking for more reasons to drop jQuery rather than more reasons to depend on it though. As an aside, I did the swipe to see the menu (I'm on mobile) but I am having hard time making the menu go away. (currently using gasp refresh).
I'm not certain that one would necessarily need/want to take a another stab a "rewriting" core code here. If they are leaning on an interface, which it appears as such (EncryptorInterface), and have managed to avoid implicit coupling etc, it might be possible to swap out the implementation with something else. Maybe one of the other libs that have been recommended in this thread.
I did aim to clarify things in one of my responses below. It wasn't my intent to suggest that the author should necessarily be the one making a PR. My main point is that contribution and improvement should be encouraged where this post leans more towards staying away from a piece of open source code altogether.
It definitely is open source insofar as it being a public repository that accepts contributions. However, the disclaimer at the top of the repo does seem to suggest that free offerings might be scooped up and put to other uses... I can see where the degree of "open sourceness" might be questioned in a case like this. I will re-iterate that I am willing to accept that there might be other politics at play here.
Definitely not. That's why I said it I think it's great that this stuff is brought to the surface. I can see how what I wrote isn't entirely clear though. What I am trying to say is that it would be nice if the message also aimed at encouraging contribution to open source software as well. It seems healthier to OSS as a whole to encourage improvement rather than abandonment.
I think it's great that stuff like this is brought to the surface, but it also troubles me that the author makes no mention of submitting a PR to improve the _open source_ code base... They seem more content to discuss boycotting and abandonment instead.