Re:Anaconda Raises $150M Series C
by lotsalaser on Thursday July 31, 2025 @09:54AM
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Wait, is this anaconda python, my favorite python installation? Oh no, it's now an AI company? Is my favorite python installation going to get enshittified?
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That happened last year, when they changed their license terms and started shaking people down for money. I wouldn't touch it.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squ...
https://licenseware.io/retrospective-on-anacondas-2024-licen...
https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4173/anaconda-threatens-lega...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/intel-sued-copyrigh...
Last year is just when they started being honest about it. Before then they left their terms intentionally ambiguous, then shook people down anyway.
Re:Anaconda Raises $150M Series C
by lotsalaser on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:16AM
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Good eye. I would not have noticed if the terms changed，even with all of those articles. Is there a good replacement?
micromamba + conda-forge does the job really well. All open source and community supported, and none of the licensing drama.
In my experience uv (haven't tried astral) doesn't quite fill the same niche, especially if compiled packages from other languages are necessary for your workflow (libboost for example)
Re:Anaconda Raises $150M Series C
by mritchie712 on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:22AM
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uv.
The same story again and again...
In the meantime, I am volunteering for a non-profit that helps FOSS projects secure sustainable funding, and goodness, that is soooo hard! Enterprises (where money is) are afraid of FOSS, and many prefer to engage commercially with commercial open source companies, backed by VCs
Just replace it with Miniforge:
https://conda-forge.org/download/