At least one good thing is coming out of it. More companies should be spending money on the python foundation.
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Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
(pyfound.blogspot.com)
Oh wow, 1.5 million. That'll totally make up for draining all the freshwater, energy and making DRAM into unobtanium for the foreseeable future /s
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Allude to Rust without saying Rust
Oh you mean MSFT is part of Alpha-Omega foundation and their money is not green.
tl;dr;
Alpha-Omega funds Seth Larson and Mike Fiedler. Alpha-Omega is big corp grants to open source projects, except yours. Never yours.
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