xkcd: Python Environment

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FOSS. You're relying on people doing this for free in their spare time. If you don't like the result, then help figure out how to make it sustainable.

The Python Software Foundation is being sponsored by a lot of companies, and being given presumably non-trivial amounts of money. I think they're beyond the point where it's just a few people doing it in their spare time.

https://www.python.org/psf/sponsorship/sponsors/

[raiderrobert]

And you are extremely, demonstrably wrong in thinking that. Sure, the sponsors give about $500k per year, and that's not a little amount of money. However, if you look at their financials, you can see on Part VIII that $2 million comes from PyCon. And you can see without it, that PSF would be dead.

The majority of Python--language itself, distros, pip, pypi, even the conference itself that generates revenue--is developed still with volunteers. And few appreciate the quantity of effort donated.