[EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.2599.1108429568.22381.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Peters  <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>[Ilias Lazaridis]
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>That leaves volunteers, or a company that wants what you want enough
>to pay for it on their own (which has happened, but not often -- I
>don't think it's happened since Zope Corp funded development of the
>datetime module).
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'Depending how you categorize things, there have been a few others 
since then--IBM, for example, has paid non-IBM people for Python
stuff IBM open-sourced.

Well, maybe more than a few, now that I think about it.