GitHub's NPM acquisition sparks Microsoft-related worries (www.theserverside.com)

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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."

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