Yea. This is really odd. What in the world is going on? Since when is a package manager something you can monetize? I knew about the plans to monetize node, but didn't realize it was going to involve mucking around with npm. This is concerning.
enterprises want to 1) publish their own private packages in an overlay to the public packages and 2) block unvetted packages. there is a business opportunity in providing that to them.
