Surely any money going into FOSS technologies, be it $2.60 or $2.6MM, is good news for everyone involved?
I don't use Node.js - RoR is more my thing - but if this money allows the project to hire talent and increase the quality of the codebase and documentation, they're going to attract developers from other frameworks.
Even the die-hard supporters that refuse to budge, Node may develop new paradigms that can be ported over.
Investment in FOSS is a good thing, IMO. Just because it came from a VC shouldn't discredit its possibilities.
Sure it's likely good for the FOSS community, but he's addressing the question of if it's good for the investor. On the face of it, an open source package management system doesn't have an obvious profit model, so it's not obvious to many people how anyone would expect to make a return on investing in NPM.
I don't use Node.js - RoR is more my thing - but if this money allows the project to hire talent and increase the quality of the codebase and documentation, they're going to attract developers from other frameworks.
Even the die-hard supporters that refuse to budge, Node may develop new paradigms that can be ported over.
Investment in FOSS is a good thing, IMO. Just because it came from a VC shouldn't discredit its possibilities.