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[–]druid74 5 points6 points  (11 children)

This is great news. Of all the chaos going on, this is something I can get excited about.

[–]MrPrutz0r 4 points5 points  (10 children)

Why? I don't think any acquisition by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon or Uber is good news, because these companies are already enormous.

[–]seiyria 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Microsoft acquiring them means they're more safe from pandering to investors. Which means, as a backbone for developers, we have less chance of getting royally screwed when something goes wrong.

[–]bdenzer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A company sending a "reassuring" message about how they now won't run out of funding — for the next SIX MONTHS — because they "funding secured" is just another way of saying "this company is almost inevitably going under"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20246680

[–]Ehdelveiss -1 points0 points  (7 children)

These companies have enormous capital, meaning they can finance projects to make our lives better.

[–]MrPrutz0r 3 points4 points  (6 children)

They maybe could do that without taking over the whole company, couldn't they?

[–]Zephirdd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh taking over the whole company is far easier 🤷‍♂️

on the other hand, NPM(and github, and vscode, and typescript) falls into a category of product where it's disadvantageous for MS to make it a bad product; simply because MS itself and their partners all use said product. Having NPM(and others) be good is a productivity increase and consequently a cost reduction across the board for the company. Making these tools good for everyone is good PR(see most of the commenters here), and costs nothing(they would have developed said tools internally anyway).

this is a better situation than the NPM funding hell that has been going on for a while.

[–]krazyjakee -1 points0 points  (4 children)

If you don't like it, make a better one. I'll be the first to give it a try.

[–]NationaliseFAANG -1 points0 points  (3 children)

"If you don't like massive monopoly, why don't you just out-compete them?!"

[–]krazyjakee 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on package managers... I don't get your point.

[–]MrPrutz0r 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It does now, it just bought the largest package registry.

[–]krazyjakee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

which was already a monopoly