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  • Probably because they are.

    The entire infrastructure of modern civilization rests on a single digit number of companies. How is this acceptable to anyone? Why is everyone just okay with this?

    • Don’t forget about that guy in Alabama/Albanania/Malaysia or wherever who is the only maintainer of THAT small npm module which is part of Every major framework used everywhere.

      • Counter point: the world would be better off without node.js A better example is the guy who maintains curl.