[coldtea]

>The problem with this logic is it could be extended indefinitely into the future.

So? Why shouldn't it? The world still needs (and runs) untold millions of lines of Cobol.

It would take billions of money to move it over -- and it will take millions to move over legacy Python 2.x codebases.

[sametmax]

If you have that cash, you can pay Continmum for commercial support and stop asking people to give you stuff for free forever.

Or, alternatively, you can start spending your week end, for free, working on maintaining it.

[wyldfire]

> The world still needs (and runs) untold millions of lines of Cobol.

shrug python organization isn't responsible for delivering a Cobol toolchain. They said they've set a deadline and it's open source so there's bound to be some popular vendors out there who you can buy support from. Just like you buy support from your Cobol vendor.

Most people who consume python are consuming it from a downstream vendor like a linux distro anyways. Commercial distros will likely offer extended support packages.