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The economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as the best account of what is wrong with npm's governance and why alternative or decentralized registries are hard.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “This is a great recent talk about this problem by the former NPM CTO”

    Former NPM CTO tells NPM story and proposes decentralized registry.

    pier25, 2019-06 · Recommendation · in “Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScript”

  2. “For those wondering what's wrong with npm, I can recommend this C J Silverio talk”

    Explains what is wrong with npm.

    drej, 2019-11 · Recommendation · in “Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: npm, open source sustainability, javascript, package management, decentralized registry

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