<story><title>Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round</title><url>http://blog.npmjs.org/post/76320673650/funding</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmaster5</author><text>Per his blog, Fast.ly is now hosting the npm registry, so the money is not going for hosting. It&amp;#x27;s to build some kind of sellout business.&lt;p&gt;Back in July he must&amp;#x27;ve seen this coming because he switched the npm license from MIT to the more restrictive Artistic 2.0: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/c32391b1efd70a861cebc77e0cc784a46af5de21&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;npm&amp;#x2F;npm&amp;#x2F;commit&amp;#x2F;c32391b1efd70a861cebc77e0c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s already taken away the download numbers on npmjs.org, so maybe he intends to sell the &amp;quot;analytics&amp;quot; back to the community.&lt;p&gt;The guy calls himself a Supreme Emporer on his LinkedIn.</text></comment>
<story><title>Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round</title><url>http://blog.npmjs.org/post/76320673650/funding</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>al2o3cr</author><text>One thing I&amp;#x27;m a tad annoyed by - this deal was being put together simultaneously with the &amp;quot;scalenpm&amp;quot; crowdfunding drive. A shoutout to the supporters of that drive would have been nice...</text></comment>