> So what? NPM wasn't originally owned by Microsoft, nor GitHub, but reality moves forward? NPM was a company and it was acquired and it was voluntary. I don'

> So what? NPM wasn't originally owned by Microsoft, nor GitHub, but reality moves forward? NPM was a company and it was acquired and it was voluntary. I don't think you can compare it to this situation - this is more of a messy situation with everything open source collaborations, rather than having clear ownership in a single entity: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/npm-is-joining-github/ https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/npm-is-joinin... Or are you referring to the pre-2014 situation where NPM wasn't VC Funded, but in a more nebulous state? It didn't last that long.