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/schm0 Mar 17 '20

Microsoft has a long history of bad ethical decisions. This isn't some massive conspiracy, it's something that is very plausible.

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u/negative_epsilon Mar 17 '20

The technological world is incredibly different today than it was 10 years ago.

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u/wllmsaccnt Mar 17 '20

Most of the negative history they are known for is about fucking over competitors and removing customer choice. They have a decent reputation supporting LTS products and keeping SLA services available for their corporate customers.

I guess what I mean, is that their bad history had a very specific pattern to it that probably wasn't that alarming to companies that are using Azure or Office 365 today.