Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is accepted

Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by fsociety on Saturday July 08, 2023 @10:47AM (#36644923)

I agree charity is not the right way to frame it. But if this was a pure money decision they would save time and effort forking the language and improving it as closed source.

They have the expertise to run a language fork and because of the scale they run at they would easily save more money doing so. Meta contributing to OSS is not an economic decision. It is about branding, trying to attract technically strong individuals (who tend to contribute to OSS or want to), and sticking to their open culture.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by biorach on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:03PM (#36645660)

> they would save time and effort forking the language and improving it as closed source.

Actually, experience has shown the opposite to be true. Time and time again even large organisations find their fork falling behind the community version and the pain of merging new versions from upstream grows and grows

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