[strenholme]

I think there is some demand for legacy Python 2 to be maintained, even if the maintenance is limited only to security fixes, and I think it would be good if some company paid you or someone else a full time salary to continue maintaining this Python 2 fork.

It’s a tragedy of the commons: A lot of companies making good money are still using Python 2, but none of them are willing to pay programmers to maintain an open source currently maintained Python 2 fork.

[int_19h]

ActiveState is offering commercial support for Python 2, for those who need it. But places that are so conservative as to need it, are also precisely the ones that will want vanilla Python rather than a fork.

https://www.activestate.com/products/python/python-2-7/