Are we having fund yet, npm? CTO calls for patience after devs complain promised donations platform has stalled | Linux Today

Are we having fund yet, npm? CTO calls for patience after devs complain promised donations platform has stalled

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Thomas Claburn
Feb 24, 2020

At the end of August, JavaScript package registry NPM Inc said it intended “to finalize and launch an Open Source funding platform by the end of 2019.”

But instead of a platform, what’s available at the moment might be better referred to as a feature of the npm command-line interface (CLI).

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Thomas Claburn

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