Comment by dijit

> I feel like MS went out of its way to make a point that GitHub and NPM would be independent orgs that no longer had to worry about making keep-the-lights-on money. It was positioned as a benevolent acquisition for the good of the development community.

Sorry, why the hell would any company do this? Goodwill is measured by MBA's in pennies and they paid *billions*.

This is like that time Google acquired the .dev domain "to reserve it for developers" but then ended up selling it- like everyone said they would.

You have got to be absurdly naive to believe that Microsoft does altruistic things, if there's no direct (or indirect) business they're not doing it: they are famously not a charity.

They have to be the richest men on the planet, retire, and then they'll do some charity.. perhaps because they feel guilty about what they did on an island or something.