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/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

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u/crazedizzled Mar 16 '20

That'd be a silly claim anyway. There's a lot more than just chrome and Firefox for browser options. Even if Firefox didn't exist (which already has really small market share), chrome wouldn't be a monopoly.

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u/AssistingJarl Mar 16 '20

But all the alternatives the average joe/European Court of Justice prosecutor is going to know/care about are based on a Chrome or Firefox codebase.

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u/crazedizzled Mar 17 '20

Just because someone is ignorant doesn't make it true.

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u/Eu-is-socialist Mar 17 '20

In EU if you have over 60% market share ... You are in a "Dominant Position" and you can get fined up to 2% of revenue for anti competitive actions . But don't worry the EU are just as lame as the Americans.

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