I must be the only one in here who thinks $1.5M is a small sum compared to Anthropic's size and the amount of value they have gotten out of Python. Good press is cheaper than I thought.

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tomComb 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You are right, it is. But it would be a mistake for us to use this opportunity to attack them for it.

We should applaud their donation today, and at another time assess the meager contributions of many companies that should be shamed.

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DrBazza 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Every single financial institution on Wall Street, the City of London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Dubai and so on, uses Python. Very few contribute.

I've worked at a few that use the 'mold' linker to dramatically reduce their build times. Again, very few contribute. In this particular case, I managed to get one former employer to make a donation.

But the list goes on.

Short arms, deep pockets, as the saying goes.

	▲	tyre 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s interesting to see everyone advocate for open source software with permissive licenses, then get mad when companies use them. If python wants to require money for updates or for customers over $X in revenue, they can! If companies don’t want to donate, they don’t have to just as python contributors don’t have to if they’re annoyed at how it’s used.

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1stranger 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

All people do here is complain.

	▲	notyourwork 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We can both applaud the effort and indicate it’s not enough. Two things can be true simultaneously.

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defraudbah 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

that was my first thought too, $1.5M is peanuts for Anthropic, however $1.5M is better than nothing, so it worth some PR too. Good they do, I think we have to encourage companies to do it, shaming will not help.