I was at Pycon - even at the MS booth! - when the Remote stuff was announced. There was a lot of pushback on why it wasn't open. At the time the story was, open

I was at Pycon - even at the MS booth! - when the Remote stuff was announced. There was a lot of pushback on why it wasn't open. At the time the story was, opening it didn't provide much benefit at the start, but was possible in the future; I recall the all-over-the-place nature of the code was stated as one of the "there's no benefit" (eg they don't want 100 pull requests to fix trivial things or formatting or issues they already know about). They may never open it. Open source isn't magic pixie dust you sprinkle on software to make it better, but it does make for a weird experience to see them open some things and not others.