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I hope they got paid, I will be very sad if they didn't at least get G5 money.

Curious how well upstream contributors or projects get contributed for these sort of headline-gathering acquisitions (probably not at all, unfortunately).

OpenClaw notably was built around Mario Zechner's pi[0]; uv I believe was highly adapted from Armin Ronacher's rye[1], and uses indygreg's python-build-standalone[2] for distributing Python builds (both of which were eventually transferred to Astral).

[0]: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono

[1]: https://github.com/astral-sh/rye

[2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone

Pretty sure the answer will definitely be "not at all". For Rye and Python Standalone Builds, I know those where both projects that had a lot of use but where the maintainers didn't want it to become an all consuming workload, so Astral taking ownership made a lot of sense.

I guess it's kind of a shame that a lot of the financial value for UV is added by people who won't see any of that - it seems like that's a wider open source problem/question to be honest.

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