GitHub's NPM acquisition sparks Microsoft-related worries | TheServerSide
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Whenever Microsoft gets involved in the open source world it tends to cause some observers to challenge the software giant's motives. GitHub's NPM acquisition this week served up fear of the Microsoft proprietary hand.

It would be an overstatement to say Microsoft now has an iron grip on JavaScript, a view that is rooted in fear among those who remember the time when Microsoft was openly hostile to open source, Murphy added.

“How you package for Node.js is hardly controlling the future of JavaScript,” he said. “Microsoft does have a large play in JavaScript as a whole, but it is an open community.”