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Re:Laurie Voss, NPM co-founder, resigns by prepend on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:24PM (#20474961)
How is a package manager for open source packages supposed to be profitable? This seems like a big risk for NPM Inc considering other languages, PyPi, CRAN, CPAN, don’t have VC-backed startups running their sites and they seem to be fine.
Re:Laurie Voss, NPM co-founder, resigns by mi100hael on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:42PM (#20475051)
They sell into large companies with an enterprise support contract and some additional features. A lot of companies want to run their own registries for private modules & such. Pretty much the same market/business model as other similar tools (particularly Java-oriented) like Nexus & Artifactory.