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Comment by kaesar14 | Hacker News Reader

This is fantastic. Wholly support non-profit funded employees working to maintain system critical open source software like Python.

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Is it fair to call this non-profit funded? The money comes from Bloomberg and Google.

The PSF, which is the organization hiring for this job, is a non-profit. As with virtually all non-profits, the PSF is funded largely by donations.

The Steering Council is Microsoft, Google, Bloomberg and has already stifled free development and opinions.

I expect that corporations will get even more power with full time employees and very little will be accomplished.

> has already stifled free development and opinions.

This is a very strong statement. Do you have any details about what you're claiming or supporting evidence?

Can the python packaging story get much worse? It's a huge blemish and way too much fragmentation and after market solutions, and of course the mental overhead of virtualenvs or else you clobber your environment.

One thing I keep hoping will get advanced in is PEP-582 to incorporate a local __pymodules__ folder since it would be nice if getting a python project up and running was as easy as node or php.

> Can the python packaging story get much worse?

Of course it can get much worse, see where Python packaging was ~5 years ago.

You mean they will stiffle all those wonderful things accomplished the last 30 years in the Python Packaging ecosystem? /s

Lol someone taking a little more power with Python packaging would be nice

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