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Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript platform that has seen dissension in the ranks over its recent direction, is about to get a new governance model.

Cloud software vendor Joyent had been in charge, but a new plan announced today will turn Node.js over to an independent third party known as the Node.js Foundation, said Joyent CEO Scott Hammond in an interview. The Foundation, which the Linux Foundation has helped set up, will have a board of directors and a technical committee, and Joyent will maintain a seat on the board along with Microsoft, IBM, and as-yet-undetermined other parties.

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