"There are 4 seats available this term," they say... guess who got those seats.

JUST before the weekend the election results were published in the Google blog of the PSF, revealing one (just one!) person who isn't an employee of Microsoft or Google. We won't mention any names as it's generally better to keep it impersonal; it's important to understand that in essence the companies just 'buy' these people; they get 'bought' for "influence" as they let the project be controlled/steered 'by proxy'. Python, more so nowadays (after the founder stepped down), is highly dependent on Google and it's outsourcing to Microsoft (GitHub). It's important to understand that these Python veterans are not necessarily from Google and Microsoft originally. But now that the salary comes from such surveillance companies it's difficult to not serve the "master" (if we're still allowed to use that word in a purely commercial context). ⬆