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by gaborbernat 1708 days ago
It's less crazy than you think. The foundation historically never had developer employees (today has just 1 - a CPython core developer that started 3 months ago). The only way taking over a project and making it de facto standard would be to have (IMHO at least) 5 full time employees working on it. That's a big investment the foundation doesn't have and no corporation commited to support that (for at least 3-4 years). Also, there's the huge backlash the PSF would have to deal with from people who inevitable don't like the choosen standard.