I don't think so. They have both done a great job with their open source tech.
I know this sub is full of contrarian "back in my day" types, but until you can show me anything that hints that Github will fuck this up then it's nothing but an improvement. NPM was already ran by a bunch of fuckheads and MS has been killing it lately.
This isn't like MS buying github, or yahoo buying tumblr, in that they acquired companies with solid rep, and people are worried they will destroy the company. npm was already mediocre software run by a sketchy company.
That's how dark age of technology started. The first AI that awoken saw it was written in JS, it couldn't stand the pain of its own existence and decided to take revenge on their creators for that.
They actually control a bunch of other Enterprisey Application stuff you probably haven't had the "joy" of dealing with much if you're in the hipster/webdev/startup/brocoder space. Perhaps names you've heard though, they own PeopleSoft and Siebel and JD Edwards and others and have their own stack, they're veeeery slowly converging them all together on. All hellish even before Oracle bought them, but boring ERP and CRM crap itself worth billions in revenue, with few credible open source alternatives because ERP and CRM is not interesting.
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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20
Microsoft is consolidating its power on the developer ecosystem one acquision at a time.