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The economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019
JSConf
C J Silverio, former npm CTO, explains how the JavaScript package commons ended up in the hands of a for-profit company with no accountability. She discusses the cost of running a registry and what the community should do next.
HN recommends it as the best account of what is wrong with npm's governance and why alternative or decentralized registries are hard.
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