But Python itself is controlled by an independent foundation[1] and an elected steering council[2], which is very different from being owned by Microsoft. For

But Python itself is controlled by an independent foundation[1] and an elected steering council[2], which is very different from being owned by Microsoft. For example, if Microsoft wanted to change CPython to automatically collect sloppily anonymized user data and send it to Microsoft without asking, as they did with .NET[3], I would expect the steering council reject that proposal. [1] https://www.python.org/psf/ https://www.python.org/psf/ [2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0013/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0013/ [3] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145 https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145