[Edu-sig] Future of CP4E after CNRI?

[Dinu C. Gherman]

Hello,

I just wonder what to expect for the future of CP4E given
the most recent developments, with people leaving the CNRI
for an new environment at BeOpen or joining from other 
places? 

If anything, I guess we can at least expect the core Python 
development activities to be determined by comercial inter-
ests from now on. A first sign of this is the renaming of 
Python 1.6 to 2.0 based more or less on marketing reasons.

Maybe there are good reasons to believe that CP4E will have
a bright future, now more than ever, and I'm just unable to 
see them? Maybe there are good reasons to believe that Be-
Open as a rather unknown new player has a real interest and
concrete advantage in promoting Python and CP4E that are 
simply not obvious to everybody?

Seeking-some-decent-level-of-enlightment'ly,

Dinu

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Dinu C. Gherman
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and the project goes down the drain." 
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