[jeremiahlee]

Under Bryan Bogensberger's leadership, npm lost:

- its CTO

- its COO co-founder

- some fantastic people in the JavaScript community

- a federal labor dispute

- its culture

- its reputation

- its business model to Github

[smacktoward]

"But other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

[cpeterso]

And he has only been CEO for eight months (January 2019).

https://blog.npmjs.org/post/181872197694/npm-inc-has-a-new-c...

[pluma]

To be fair, people started leaving last year when the leadership change was first announced internally.

[k__]

Don't know if they lost anything at all to GitHub (yet).

But let's see how Entropic and GH package registries turn out.

[MrBuddyCasino]

They had a business model?

[steveklabnik]

They sell “organizations” for $7/month which gives you private packages, and also https://www.npmjs.com/products/enterprise

[koolba]

I always assumed their business model was "Stay afloat till $BIG_CORP acquires us".

[jacurtis]

I think that is still the business model. The $7 /mo for enterprise is the "Stay Afloat until..." part of that business model

[aikah]

It's obvious to me that Microsoft will end up buying NPM Inc.

[goatinaboat]

Why? They already own Github which is about to reduce NPM to “feature, not product” status

[dredmorbius]

Why did Facebook buy WhatsApp, or Oracle buy Peoplesoft?

Typically: to enhance their offerings, remove a competitor, or shut it down.

[fharper]

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