“On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, S. à r.l for US$8.5 billion”
I think Microsoft has changed significantly in the last decade.
I’m quietly hopeful the npm acquisition will go well for us (although I still hold some serious grudges about Microsoft’s past behaviour).
Thats not the important thing, thats the problem. Npm could easily be an open source client. Contain less code and be better. And have a mirors system like every other repo so it does not need money for hosting.
Npm wanted to control nodejs and make money out it. And they have.
Microsoft purchased that control and plan to make money out of it.
This is bad news for OS dev.
What does this even mean?
No interest in mirrors from day one.
Npm sold out to Microsoft and got paid. All that free community effort to stop Npms "crashiness" got sold to Microsoft for dollar.
Nodejs went to the Linux foundation.
Npm went to Microsoft.
Suprised?
You said they controlled nodejs, and that they somehow earned money by controlling nodejs. I think that neither of those has ever been the case.
The NPM client is and has always been open source: https://github.com/npm/cli.
> Npm wanted to control nodejs and make money out it. And they have.
In what way, other than offering private package hosting for enterprises?