> It is sad that open source is all about foundations and positions now, not about software development. Actually it isn't. There's plenty of new open source b

> It is sad that open source is all about foundations and positions now, not about software development. Actually it isn't. There's plenty of new open source being developed. When a project gets big enough, some kind of formal support structure has to emerge. I can't think of a single time I looked at someone's profile on Stack Overflow and allowed credentials to override working, well-written code. > I would not advise anyone to spend significant resources to donate free work to Python. I'm not part of Python governance, but after over 25 years of writing Python code, it makes me sad that you feel that way. On the whole, the Python community has been awesome online and in person. It sounds like you had a really bad experience. I've had a few bad experiences with other open-source projects, and every time, it was really just a case of I had what I thought was a great idea, and the project owners thought differently. Looking back on it, I probably didn't have as great of an idea as I thought I had at the time.