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Re:How to build an NPM worm by tatersolid on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:10PM (#17528587)
They are all very popular “open source” ecosystem tools beholden to a for-profit corporation.

Somebody has to pay the bills.

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Re:How to build an NPM worm by nostalgeek on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:28PM (#17528649)
> They are all very popular “open source” ecosystem tools beholden to a for-profit corporation.

NPM server is not open source to begin with. Its client shouldn't be bundled with node, an open source project. I don't use Wordpress but pretty sure I don't have to pay a license to Wordpress to install its CMS on a server. And github server IS NOT open source.

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