you kill off all open source pieces, in turn compliance is happy, and a CTO is happy because he has a maintenance contract and can blame other people if stuff goes wrong.

It's a way to get those pesky Python people to shut up

Oh, and a CTO is always valued more if he manages a 5 million Databricks budget, where he can prove his worth by showing a 5% discount het negotiated very well, than a 1 million whatever-else budget that would be best in class. Everybody wins.

makes for good boilerplate conversation while playing golf too