Maybe they are being acquired to improve the quality of Codex.

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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shimman 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	hun3 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> why we keep trusting venture capital to be the community's stewards I have no idea. They bought the trust.