Re:Astral to Join OpenAI
by OutOfHere on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:02PM
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That's the thing. To me that says that as soon as cash becomes tight at OpenAI, the Astral staff will no longer get to work on Python tooling anymore, namely uv, etc.
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Tale as old as time in SV, why we keep trusting venture capital to be the community's stewards I have no idea.
We need public investment in open source, in the form of grants, not more private partnerships that somehow always seem to hurt the community.
> why we keep trusting venture capital to be the community's stewards I have no idea.
They bought the trust.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:34PM
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> we keep trusting venture capital to be the community's stewards
OpenAI isn't a VC. It's VC-backed. But so is Astral.
what do you mean "trusting" or "hurting the community"? i don't think uv has damaged anything yet. i'll use a tool from whoever if the risk profile is acceptable. given the level of quality in uv already, it seems very low risk to adopt no matter who the authors are, because it's open source, easy to use old version, and if they really go off the deep end, i expect the python community as a whole will maintain a slow-moving but stable fork.
i'd love there to be infinite public free money we could spend on Making Good Software but at least in the US, there is vanishingly small public free money available, while there's huge sums of private free money even in post-ZIRP era. If some VCs want to fund a team to write great open source software the rest of us get for free, i say "great thanks!"