@petrillic Of the possible buyers this is very close to my least ideal.

The tool is open source, and has no astral-specific service dependencies. I am going to trust that to the same extent I trust it to keep Linux usable despite the motivations of the contributors. It's forkable.

@offby1 @petrillic There is python-build-standalone, which solves the "how do I get a functional Python 3.x interpreter" aspect of things. That's basically indefinite ongoing work, as far as I can tell.
@pradyunsg @offby1 @petrillic well, we have been trying to upstream it, so that we can provide our own builds, so hopes to that