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I remember that fall when npm would spontaneously fail all the time, and we even thought about putting up our own mirror/proxy couchdb. Now I know why. Also yarn uses their own registry, which make a lot of sense (FB/Google not being as threatened).

Yarn's "registry" is a CNAME to npm, and Yarn isn't Facebook nor Google

I did not know that, interesting. Makes me wonder why they bothered at all, but maybe that's an escape hatch for redirecting traffic if npm decides to go hard ball. Yarn is written by FB and Google, right?

We’re pleased to announce the open source release of Yarn, a collaboration between Facebook, Exponent, Google, and Tilde. https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2016/10/11/introducing-yarn/ …

While bootstrapped by those companies, Yarn is an independent community project, highlighted by it not being part of the facebook or github GitHub organizations (contrary to React or Jest, for example). Additionally, none of the active contributors work at Facebook at the moment.