It's partly political. If GvR is paid by a company to work on something, the result goes in, no matter how bad it is. The NoGIL effort comes from Facebook and

It's partly political. If GvR is paid by a company to work on something, the result goes in, no matter how bad it is. The NoGIL effort comes from Facebook and as such is suspect (until Microsoft switches to Golang like Google and Dropbox and GvR moves to Facebook).