NPM Is Joining GitHub

Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by mbesto on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:37PM (#22596684)

> Tbf Microsoft have won back a lot of good faith with developers due to projects like VS Code and TypeScript, even for those of us who remember their past.

Those are great until they're not. It's why it's called "bait and switch".

> And we're yet to hear of any negative impact of their Github acquisition (afaik - correct me if wrong).

ANY?! Heh, do a quick search just on HN and you'll find it pretty quickly.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by michaelmior on Monday March 16, 2020 @05:21PM (#22598007)

I did search, didn't find it quickly. Could you share some sources of the negative impact? (I'm legitimately curious as my use of GitHub hasn't led me to notice any change.)

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by mbesto on Monday March 16, 2020 @07:52PM (#22599659)

I found two pretty damn quickly. They're 3 of the top 5 most upvoted comments on the announcement thread...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221640

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221656

> I'm legitimately curious as my use of GitHub hasn't led me to notice any change

Nor I. That's not that point.

For the record, I think Microsoft has done wonderfully for the dev community in the last 10 years. I don't see any reason that they are going to "f it up", but big businesses get desperate when environments change and profits get impacted (look no further than what Oracle is doing). Microsoft is not immune to that.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by IAmEveryone on Monday March 16, 2020 @08:43PM (#22600156)

The complaints are "I think it really impacts the neutrality of github" and "I hope they don't discontinue Atom or apply their UX styling to the site/desktop app", respectively. Those don't strike me as particularly specific and/or nightmarish.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by abdulmuhaimin on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:20PM (#22601291)

concern of negative impact =/= negative impact. Great job twisting the truth. Im not gonna be surprised if you say you're a journalist.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by michaelmior on Monday March 16, 2020 @09:12PM (#22600380)

Neither of those show negative impact but people worried about potential future negative impact.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by allover on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:50PM (#22599056)

I know what 'bait and switch' means, just like I also know what FUD means.

Next you'll call them Micro$oft. Come on now.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by mbesto on Monday March 16, 2020 @07:47PM (#22599614)

Are you aware of what Oracle is doing to its customers right now?

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by nickflood on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:10PM (#22601233)

Come on, Oracle was always predatory. You always knew exactly what would happen to anything they acquire.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by eyelidlessness on Monday March 16, 2020 @07:32PM (#22599501)

Oh this takes me back to when Internet Exploder was the most popular browser

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by DarkmSparks on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:25AM (#22602290)

Nothing will come from those idiots spreading fud calling it micro$oft and using npm...

If it does micro$oft will just buy the world out from under them.

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