Comment on OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 4 days agoThey were not competing before? Astral’s product is private package repo’s. Maybe that will get abandoned but the FOSS projects are safe.
wingswithbones@lemmus.org 4 days ago
the team that used to work on Astral now works for OpenAI and will now only operate under its direction and for its interests. Whatever you’re talking about is a separate issue
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
That’s not how competition works. Astral made a different product, served different audiences, and the markets were not competitive. Astral made tools that help a human developer organize and maintain their code. Nothing to do with chatbots. The team now being at OpenAI means jack shit about anticompetitive practices.
This is sad because Astral made good open source tools and I don’t trust OpenAI to keep that up.