Is npm Enough? Why Startups are Coming after this JavaScript Package Registry.

(…) what is the financial model that would turn npm from a cost center into a profit center?

Relevant comment: “I don’t understand how people fail to see that monetizing infrastructure nigh-universally requires betraying the purpose of the infrastructure. It’s already a profit center; the profits we get from npm are the profits of everything that requires npm. npm pays dividends to all of us across the Internet every day. The fact that our economic systems aren’t built to support this kind of notion is a bug in the economic systems, not a flaw in the concept of infrastructure.”