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So... someone enlighten me here; why does a project like npm need funding at all? If projects like GCC, which are far more complex, can subsist via contributions and donations alone, so what makes npm, a package manager, different?
So... someone enlighten me here; why does a project like npm need funding at all? If projects like GCC, which are far more complex, can subsist via contributions and donations alone, so what makes npm, a package manager, different?
gcc isnt a service?
I don't understand how they intend to monetize this, but whatever.
One thing I'm a tad annoyed by - this deal was being put together simultaneously with the "scalenpm" crowdfunding drive. A shoutout to the supporters of that drive would have been nice...
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What's the exit going to be? Who are they going to sell to? What revenues are they going to bring in? We're talking VC money, not a grant. Did they just hand over the keys to the node community to someone else?
It really depends on what rights izs has in the case there are differences of opinion between him and where the VCs want to go. Let's be honest here, 92% of commits were made by izs, npm is izs and izs is npm. The two are inseparable. Without izs, any real development of npm would slow to a crawl, until someone else familiar with the codebase takes ownership. I know izs personally and he is a stand up guy and a lot o…
npm can refer to any number of things. It can refer to the client, the server, the hosting provider, the public package registry, and now npm Inc. They all sound like the same thing but they're all actually different.
Contrast this to Github. Github is a service that provides hosting, a public registry, and tools for git. Nobody complains about Github controlling git, because they're obviously separate things. Most people don't know that npm the registry is different from npm the software and that you can even host your own server.
I think they'll mostly be a consulting company for enterprise solutions to companies with hundreds of node.js projects going on that need a complex package management solution that npm inc. can provide.
One thing I'm a tad annoyed by - this deal was being put together simultaneously with the "scalenpm" crowdfunding drive. A shoutout to the supporters of that drive would have been nice...
All that said, I love them both dearly.
One thing I'm a tad annoyed by - this deal was being put together simultaneously with the "scalenpm" crowdfunding drive. A shoutout to the supporters of that drive would have been nice...
It's also kind of funny that Meteor.JS by contrast got $11.2m in funding. And NPM the underpinning technology which has further reaching economic benefits only receives $2.6m. I know it's a bit apple and oranges, but four times the value? The valuation of software is surrealism. All that said, I love them both dearly.
We don't know what they were valued at.
One thing I'm a tad annoyed by - this deal was being put together simultaneously with the "scalenpm" crowdfunding drive. A shoutout to the supporters of that drive would have been nice...
It's also kind of funny that Meteor.JS by contrast got $11.2m in funding. And NPM the underpinning technology which has further reaching economic benefits only receives $2.6m. I know it's a bit apple and oranges, but four times the value? The valuation of software is surrealism. All that said, I love them both dearly.
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thanks for answering the questions. i depend on node at my day job, so i am particularly interested in npm's future. i understand someone has to pay for the servers and development time, but would it be possible to give a hint for the types of things you plan to charge for? Even just a rough sketch of "we will offer private repositories" or "we will offer support." I appreciate the "reassurances" that nothing will ch…
I appreciate your paranoia :-) We are wary of announcing all the stuff we're planning given that we don't know how long it will take to build yet and don't want to be accused of vaporware. However, we are planning to announce at least our initial product plans pretty soon. (Probably not in a comment on a HN thread though ;-))
I would like to see npm become a more generic solution for package management in all languages.