Comment by tuveson
21 hours ago
> This restriction is philosophical rather than technical. I get it though. TypeScript is a Microsoft product. Opening that floodgate would pollute the entire ecosystem.
Bad news (well not news, this happened a while ago): https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/16/microsoft-github-agrees-...
> The new deal shows Microsoft doubling down on the strategy of helping individuals and corporate developers adopt open-source software, despite its heritage of distributing products that cost money
That is.....not the way anyone I know would describe Microsoft's history with the open source movement historically.....
Don't worry. I'm sure Microsoft will be as good of a steward of npm and its ecosystem as they have been for GitHub.
GH still has its own login system thankfully, and I can't even sign in with Microsoft or link my Linkedin profile in any way (at least from Github.com; I'm sure there's a public Linkedin-developed Github App). I'll take what I can get.
The article is from 2020, so you may already be able to make that judgment.
They've been a great steward of GitHub. You people have no perspective. They've kept an insanely generous free tier - free private repos, free CI runners including windows and Mac! And no ads.
Name one other company that would do that.
I too would have kept it "free" for the LLM learning corpus and the way to nudge developers towards own cloud services and infrastructure. Github Actions is the first obvious deviation from vendor agnosticism here. If it's about "they didn't make profit maximization at all costs a priority" then I agree.
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Yeah man, it's super free! And the paid product even works properly 4 out of 5 weekdays
node!=npm, and microsoft doesn't own the development of node.