NPM Is Joining GitHub

Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by reaperducer on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:41PM (#22595141)

I'm surprised there's not a single mention of "Microsoft" in this or the npm announcement [1], given the old-evil-history of Microsoft and the new-nice Microsoft we have today.

Maybe Microsoft's reputation is exactly the reason why it was left out of this announcement.

Sometimes a brand is so tarnished that the owner tries to hide it from the people who hate it. (For example, Comcast → Xfinity. I expect Monsanto to go the same way and become Bayer.)

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by chang1 on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:05PM (#22596234)

The latter already happened[1]. Bayer offloaded most of it's ag business (to BASF) and replaced it with Monsanto. Monsanto has been rebranded "Bayer Crop Science". Although I'm guessing much for the same reason, Monsanto never rebranded any of the dozens of seed companies it acquired over the years (e.g. Dekalb, Seminis, Asgrow, etc.)

The same also goes for Charter → Spectrum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Sale_to_Bayer

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by Dahoon on Monday March 16, 2020 @07:36PM (#22599531)

>Monsanto has been rebranded "Bayer Crop Science"

When the company that commercialized heroin and was complicit in the holocaust is a better brand you really got a PR problem.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by ksec on Monday March 16, 2020 @08:34PM (#22600070)

And I was wondering what was going through Facebook's mind when they decide to have Instagram / WhatsApp by Facebook Brand.

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