Is Npm worth $2.6MM?

Re:Is Npm worth $2.6MM? by ricardobeat on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:01AM (#7452879)

> Someone has to pay that S3 (I guess CouchDB) and EC2 bills

Previous package managers have done well running on public mirrors donated by universities and businesses around the globe. rubygems finances itself via a non-profit. There is nothing necessary about NPM's business model, IMO it's just a side-effect of the incredible tolerance for private ownership within the node ecosystem. I can't imagine this model would fly for any other language/platform.

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Re:Is Npm worth $2.6MM? by streeter on Sunday March 23, 2014 @01:11PM (#7454076)

Python's PyPI gets donations from Rackspace (hosting) and Fastly (CDN) to run. See the note at the bottom of https://pypi.python.org/pypi

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Re:Is Npm worth $2.6MM? by twerquie on Sunday March 23, 2014 @01:09PM (#7454066)

Scala seems roughly similar.

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Re:Is Npm worth $2.6MM? by frowaway001 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @02:53PM (#7454497)

How?

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Re:Is Npm worth $2.6MM? by twerquie on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:48PM (#7455795)

It is owned by a single corporate entity who is also its primary sponsor, Typesafe. This is similar to how Joyent owns node, and how they sponsor it's development, along with NodeJitsu, Microsoft, Heroku and others.

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Re:Is Npm worth $2.6MM? by frowaway001 on Monday March 24, 2014 @02:02PM (#7459989)

No. It's "owned" by the EPFL.

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