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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by teknopaul on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @05:38AM (#22603218)
Gihub already had a masssive social graph. They know who you are in terms of who you work for and who your CTO is. Npm does not know that about me. It has no sales channel.
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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by oaiey on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:50PM (#22606913)
GitHub is owned by the same entity that owns LinkedIn. Microsoft has really no problems cross linking persons. They can also easily link the source code between the systems etc (if they want).
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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by teknopaul on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:16PM (#22611705)
And they will, to the extent possible by law.

And they will ask you, under the guise of 2fa, to confirm thier suspicions.

And $7 a month gets plently of new upgrade options offered.

All talk of mirrors gets brushed under the carpet.

Microsoft pwn all nodejs code except core and those savvy enough to spot this coming and distribute via debian repos.

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