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They did not.

• chipotle_coyote 5y ago
  It's probably not accurate to phrase it as "Joyent sponsored the the work that led to Node.js", but it was essentially their project in the early 2010s. They were paying full-time salaries to Node and NPM's creators, and Ryan Dahl described Node as being "officially under Joyent's roof". https://groups.google.com/g/nodejs/c/lWo0MbHZ6Tc https://groups.google.com/g/nodejs/c/lWo0MbHZ6Tc (I remember, after TextDrive fell apart, making a rather sardonic blog post observing that if I were heavily involved with Node, I would be making contingency plans.)