In reply to Gerd.

This particular product was already owned by a corporation -- npm, Inc. What changed is the corporation that owns it.

There's probably always going to be a little distrust of Microsoft within the open-source world. However, they have kept GitHub running without really changing the existing formula. GitHub, at least to me, has only continued improving. I don't see npm going anywhere given how Microsoft has embraced open-source in recent years and how much of the modern web relies on it.