Status of Python for .NET

[Samuel Schulenburg]

gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) wrote in message news:<3c580a60.6586500 at news.t-online.de>...
> Two questions: 
> 
> - The current version of VisualPython .NET seems not to generate CLR
> code, but just provide a fancy IDE for "Python as we know and love
> it". Will Python support the CLR, and specifically the
> language-interoperability thing? (I'm asking because I want to be
> spared the ... bad language-lookalike that is C#). 
> 
> - With the leave of Mark Hammond from Activestate, does anybody have a
> guess about the future of Visual Python .NET?

I have run into the following catch 22 between what Microsoft say's
and what they do.

I recently attened their .NET seminiar where they proudly proclamed
that .NET will support various languages, and
Python,Fortran,Cobal,Effel,and others were mentioned. They did not say
who would be porting these languages to .NET.

Now at the company I work for, (A Microsoft House) we use Windows2000
as the OS for our product. Microsoft's EULA that we have to follow
states that we can not use open source, or GPL'd software. i.e I can
not use Python at work/

I ckecked out Monster.com for Python jobs the other day, and found a
posting by Microsoft for Python programmers.

Wow I am really confused.
1) Will .NET support Python?
2) How will that effect an open source version?
3) Will Microsofts EULA contradict the marketing verbage?
4) What are they doing with Python Programmers?

Sam Schulenburg