alt Hacker NewsIt’s interesting to see everyone advocate for open source software with permissive licenses, then get mad when companies use them.
If python wants to require money for updates or for customers over $X in revenue, they can!
If companies don’t want to donate, they don’t have to just as python contributors don’t have to if they’re annoyed at how it’s used.
very easy way to make bank would be to support extended security updates for old versions of python
a couple of paid engineers could support every previous version essentially forever