tzlander

This method favors big corporations and provides further lock-in. Python only does what Microsoft/Instagram etc. demand.

So you get suit-compatible catch phrases like "SBOM" (notice how free software has been deliberately degraded to "materials" in that acronym!).

The corporations want to control open source, milk it, feed it to their LLMs, plagiarize it and so forth. And they pay enough "open" source developers who sell out the valuable parts that are usually written by other people.

As you say, it's partly security theater because of the other attack vectors that are especially relevant in an organization that has no stringent procedures, no open discussion culture or commitment to correctness like e.g. FreeBSD.

Thanks for pointing this out! In general, the sovereign tech fund should not fund Python or the PSF, since the administration is U.S. dominated and the whole organization is captured by U.S. corporations.

Unpaid developers from Europe (and Asia) just serve as disposable work horses for the U.S. "elites".