NPM Adds Command-Line Option To Help Fund Open-Source Coders

guest · Nov 10, 2019

NPM today stands for Now Pay Me: JavaScript packaging biz debuts conduit for funding open-source coders
November 6, 2019
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/06/npm_fund/

NPM Inc, maintainer of the widely used JavaScript package manager npm, has taken a step toward fulfilling a promise made in August to help open-source developers seek compensation for their labor.

Despite its own solvency concerns, the biz on Tuesday deployed code changes that add a "funding" command to the latest version of the npm command-line tool, namely v6.13.0. Henceforth, developers creating packages for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js can declare metadata that describes where would-be donors can go to offer financial support.

In a phone interview with The Register, NPM Inc co-founder and co-CTO Isaac Schlueter said: "The problem we're solving is open source projects need funding and there are very few ways people can get that information in front of people using their code."
The issue came up in August when software developer Feross Aboukhadijeh released a code library called funding.
Following criticism from programmers who objected to the intrusion of ads, Aboukhadijeh ended his experiment [...]
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Asked whether NPM Inc's funding platform might help fund NPM the company itself, Schlueter said there are a lot of possibilities for how things might evolve.
"I certainly wouldn't mind making more money but I don't see this as a big revenue growth opportunity for us," said Schlueter. "The more important thing is not letting the open source ecosystem get hollowed out."
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