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Yeah, its not like you access to and the sources of all versions of Python. No proprietary vendor has ever revoked licenses, pulled downloads, version or timebo
by njharman 6y ago
Yeah, its not like you access to and the sources of all versions of Python. No proprietary vendor has ever revoked licenses, pulled downloads, version or timebombed binaries, stopped support for eol products, auto upgraded, etc.
Yes open-source is clearly worse for giving you the right and means. Vs being subject to the whims and profitability of a company.
- njharman 6y agoAlso get the furk out of here with your 90s era FUD. No one believes it anymore.
- thepasswordis 6y agoIt is literally happening right now. The people who have demanded that everybody switch to python3 instead of simply forking python have proven the FUD true.
- luhn 6y agoIf you want forks there are forks. Off the top of my head, Redhat is supporting Python 2 for several more years and there's a project called Tauthon [1] that is "Python 2.8" in spirit. I'm sure there's more efforts I'm not aware of. [1] https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
- crad 6y agoThe push for Python 3 has been happening for over 10 years at this point. At what point do you expect people to be able to stop supporting a very outdated distribution of any software? 6 years ago my company switched to Python 3.5 and there was a big push in the community at that point to move away from Python 2. I mean Python 3 came out around the same time as Windows Vista, which has been unsupported since 2017.