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There are many other developers who have made huge contributions and have not asked for money. But in the new corporate Python world this might be the logical

• xapata 6y ago
  Maybe. Guido probably got some Google and Dropbox shares, so I'll bet he's not unhappy with the results of his work.
• coldtea 6y ago
  >The losers are the people who made Python what it is today, for free. Why are they "losers"? Did they sign any contract that something is owned to them? They did it for fun/personal reasons/ideology, and what they created is used by millions. If they wanted to get paid for doing it, they could very well have had as well - several core python contributors have worked in large companies doing Python (including core Python) work, most famous of all Guido.
  • ybhx 6y ago
    Not a core developer, but part of my job at my company is to follow CPython development very closely. I don't see the pattern that the core contributors who work for large companies do important work. A lot of it is churn and minor patches. Most important work appears to have been done by people who contribute a large chunk of code and then often leave. Or by people who don't work for large companies but did a lot of useful bug fixes.