Don't worry. I'm sure Microsoft will be as good of a steward of npm and its ecosystem as they have been for GitHub.
Name one other company that would do that.
And your comment about LLMs is even sillier. Not only did they buy it 5 years before LLMs became relevant, but there's nothing stopping anyone other than Microsoft from downloading all of GitHub. Look at grep.app for example.
Keep the "shit" to yourself, because I didn't say nor imply that.
> buy it 5 years before LLMs became relevant
GPT-3 is mid 2020[1], but I doubt the inter-departmental communication would've been strong enough to seriously consider a Github acquisition since 2017?/2018. These decisions take time.
> but there's nothing stopping anyone other than Microsoft from downloading all of GitHub.
Licensing. Not that they care about such details today.
My interpretation of events is as follows: Microsoft pivots to cloud, while strengthening their focus on developers and the ecosystem (like they have once successfully done with Win32 and later tooling & frameworks). VSCode fits this idea. The immediate goal of Github ownership was developer relations and to bring all this mass to orbit the Azure ecosystem. The machine learning trend happened to chronologically come right after. Github Copilot was the first experiment. Today it ought to be one of the major reasons to keep and expand the user base.
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2019/05/24/github_i...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OpenAI&oldid=1014...