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We are a little tounge in cheek here, but I’ll take this question seriously. While it is great that NPM can develop new and more reliable products, is would als

We are a little tounge in cheek here, but I’ll take this question seriously. While it is great that NPM can develop new and more reliable products, is would also greatly benefit them and everyone else, if enerprises of certain size or stature would be required, legaly or regutoraly, to pay for software they already use. So say you are a bank, and there is a list of regulations that you have to comply with, so here is a new one. FTC (or California law makers) can figure out the mechanics and JP Morgan will write the check. Then NPM will already have a solid foundation to build on, some indie will have a windfall, and the big software guys might say hell yes, that’s a new business model. That’s what I’d prefer, but no one but you is asking me ;)

zackbloom 8y ago
I'm not sure we need another incentive for large companies to not use best-practices and modern technology.
shados 8y ago
As mentioned already, it wasn't that long ago when big corps like banks didn't touch open source or free stuff with a stick. People who worked at those big banks, companies like Oracle, etc, back then will be able to tell you that almost everything was built in-house. The problem NPM solves isn't a particularly interesting or challenging problem to solve if you don't try to solve it at scale. They'd just build their own. Then for the couple of packages that are hard to replicate, they'd find a way to sign some papers to get access to the code and push it to their own registry. For everything else they'd just rewrite it from scratch. Short of things like React, it's not all that hard for places with the resources of these big corps to rewrite bundlers, web servers, and utility libraries.