[apendleton]

I've had great success with using pypy in production, but found that it was sometimes tricky to figure out how to fully leverage the performance wins on the table, especially if the regular way you might do a thing in cpython depended on a C extension that was either unsupported on pypy, or supported but slow. I could imagine a real demand for people with the specialized expertise necessary to do this for commercial customers, so I wonder if the plan here is for pypy be funded by this kind of consulting, and maybe exist under an entity that can make that happen (i.e., that's allowed to do for-profit consulting work)?

[acdha]

That’s what I’d guess at, something like Red Hat: you pay us for support & consulting for OSS work you don’t want to have in-house developers for.