Issacs wrote the initial npm and was by far the largest contributor.
I wonder how it relates to a few npm forks (https://github.com/rlidwka/yapm, https://github.com/visionmedia/npm) created earlier this year, especially to second one since @visionmedia didn't change its name...
And what about alternate npm-compatible registries (https://github.com/mbrevoort/node-reggie, https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia, https://github.com/cnpm/cnpmjs.org), not based on CouchDB?
"npm" isn't only a product name anymore since it's used extremely widely, so this doesn't seem like a good thing to do.
Had to go 4 pages back in HN to find this. Guess this story is getting flagged by someone.
It's my understanding that in open source communities, the relevant trademarks are usually held by a community-led foundation (e.g. the Apache Software Foundation, the Python Software Foundation). Is there no "Node Foundation"?
Well. This is the week I started really getting into node. It's also the week I found about this. It's all disheartening. It's probably a necessary awakening step for developers in regards to truly considering the ownership of their tools.
I hope the npm replacement word is going to be as easy and short, or even more so. nnn? "nnn is not npm"?
Why hadn't nodejitsu trademarked npm beforehand, if they believed the owned the right to it?
so who owns npm?
I pledge not to use nodejitsu or have any dealings with nodejitsu employees until I see a blog post stating that they have changed their minds and are not going to hijack npm trademark.