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abdullahkhalids 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: PYX: The next step in Python packaging

I believe that you are sincere and truthful in what you say.

Unfortunately, the integrity of employees is no guard against the greed of investors.

Maybe next year investors change the CEO and entire management and they start monetizing the open source tools. There is no way of knowing. But history tells us that there is a non-trivial chance of this happening.

dandellion 11 months ago | [–]

Yes, at every company I have been with investors, sooner or later they make the calls, what the founders wanted never has much weight a few years in.

adr1an 11 months ago | [–]

A week later a fork appears and everyone is happy (except those investors, CEO, and management, but it never was about their happiness so...)

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