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How much did Microsoft pay? What did the founders take away? Most people don’t know, in these open source acquisitions by for profits there’s money involved an
by ryanmarsh 7y ago
How much did Microsoft pay? What did the founders take away?
Most people don’t know, in these open source acquisitions by for profits there’s money involved and “founders” get an exit. Not always clear To the public who those are or what they took home from a mostly volunteer effort.
- lioeters 7y agoI too was curious about how much the acquisition cost. According to TechCrunch: > GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/github-nabs-javascript-packaging-vendor-npm/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/github-nabs-javascript-pac...