We notice the Microsoft front. Microsoft has marched through the "open" source institutions and employs a sufficient number of OSS people.
In Python, Microsoft employees (who don't develop much ...) have two seats in the Steering Council and GvR, who still seems to pull strings.
Opposition on the mailing lists is shut down ruthlessly and is censored. The new "JIT" project has all the hallmarks of NIH and will end in minor insignificant speedups. The C# guys will be amused.