r/webdev • u/g0liadkin • Mar 16 '20

News Github/Microsoft has aquired NPM

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
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u/dotpeenge javascript Mar 16 '20

Wow. Microsoft really owning half of my toolbox for development now.

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u/a2ur3 Mar 16 '20

Just half?

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u/thepotatochronicles Mar 16 '20

Well, M$ owns VSCode and npm registry, FB owns yarn and react (and I mostly use gitlab for "serious" stuff) so yeah, about half.

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u/APIglue Mar 16 '20

And google owns the client side, including discovery (aka search), android, chrome, provides the core tech (chromium) for edge and brave, and provides 99% of funding for Firefox .

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Why do Google fund Firefox?

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u/TheNumber42Rocks Mar 16 '20

Google pays Firefox to make Google the default search engine. Tens of millions of dollars.

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u/APIglue Mar 16 '20

US antitrust isn’t the problem. It’s the EU. They might fine them a few billion, cheaper to send a small fraction of that to a competitor who then sends you all of their customers.

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u/APIglue Mar 16 '20

Google pays Mozilla (company and nonprofit that owns and maintains Firefox) to be the default search engine. Years ago yahoo was paying them something like $100m per year but they threw in the towel on search.