On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 07:25:49PM +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote: > On 2018-06-04, 16:06 GMT, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I don't see how this *increases* the uncertainty. Surely if > > GitHub had remained independent there would have been be > > similar concerns about how it would make enough money to stay > > in business. > > Beacuse Microsoft is known to keep a money loosing venture > around forever?
No, but Guido is right: neither is anyone else. In that regard, Microsoft is probably *more* likely to keep pumping money into a failing business if it gives them a strategic advantage, compared to other investors with no long-term strategy other than "get aquired by Google/Microsoft/Oracle/Apple". But on the other hand, Microsoft (or at least the bad old Microsoft of Bill Gates' days) has a long history of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" as policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish (Not that Microsoft is the only big tech company that does/did this.) Anyway, this is just all speculation at this point. In the short term, nothing changes, and it is too early to tell how it changes the long term. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com