Microsoft finally 💖’s open source: A chat with npm’s founder

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by Sindy Cator on March 3, 2016 at 4:40 pm

For Microsoft, 2015 was a year that’ll go down in the history books — and not because it released a new version of Windows or Office, but because the company fundamentally shifted in a big way by embracing open source. John Shewchuk, a technical fellow at Microsoft whose job it is to bring the community closer to the company, started a video podcast called Decoded, which offers regular deep insight into developer focused topics with interesting people from the industry. This week’s episode digs into Node Package Manager (npm), one of the most popular package management systems out there, with the company’s…