No affiliation at all to the author but if you want to read more he's @driscollis on twitter and the book is at https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/python-interviews

also I first heard this story on the Talk Python podcast https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/156/python-history-and-p...

Of course its not the full story but it is an interesting comment and from a firsthand source. That's all I know, I dont have a dog in this fight :)