[pvh]

Just a note to suggest that giving away your hard work to those who will profit from it in the hope that they will remember you later seems like a pretty dubious exchange.

Have a look at how that worked out for the folks who built node and its libraries versus the ones who maintained control of their work (like npm).

[quickthrower2]

What happened there. Surely the people who built node (or the people building the most popular fork at least) get to define what the default package manager is etc. and get some BATNA against the likes of a 3rd party package manager profiting from their thing. I don't know what the node/npm relationship story is though.