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.
We need public investment in open source, in the form of grants, not more private partnerships that somehow always seem to hurt the community.
They bought the trust.
OpenAI isn't a VC. It's VC-backed. But so is Astral.
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!"