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[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

[-] logging_strict@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Allude to Rust without saying Rust

Oh you mean MSFT is part of Alpha-Omega foundation and their money is not green.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

At least one good thing is coming out of it. More companies should be spending money on the python foundation.

[-] logging_strict@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

and the entire ecosystem of packages which needs to be maintained.

Unless you think that is done by magic fairy elves

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Exactly this - if a corporation uses Python we should expect them to fund the PSF in someway, not balk at it when they do.

Also, if we had a functional US government, a corporation wouldn't have needed to pick up the slack.

[-] logging_strict@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

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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