@cczona Also, stories like this one are not encouraging, but a lot of that person's described experiences rhyme with my own, both when I first tried to stop being a Rackspace customer years ago, and more recently:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1617582/rackspace-is-now-the-roach-motel-of-cloud-platforms.html

@ehashman It's an interesting and frustrating situation. When I was younger and living in pretty significant poverty, there probably would have been a legal-aid society or something that could have helped me with this. Or if I were significantly richer than I am, I'd likely have an established regular relationship with a law firm and could just have them deal with this as part of their ongoing work for me. But in between those two economic extremes, there's basically not a lot of help available, because not a lot of firms want to take a case this small as a one-off even with a client who could easily pay them to do it.

Though I am admittedly guessing at the amount in dispute, because I literally don't know what it is. Their systems (correctly) identified that I'm not the account owner, so wouldn't let me actually see the tickets they were filing for past-due amounts, even though they were also emailing me about those tickets.

For now, I'm continuing to work leads, and have also filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office, to see if that'll get anywhere.

@brettcannon @offby1 To be clear I'm not saying uv was first to have things, just that I think the fact that it was literally people's day job to work on it meant they had a high average velocity that volunteer projects can't easily match.

For example, even when I had a line on potential funding for pylock.toml install support in pip, I was told it would still come down to whether a pip maintainer could find the time to supervise and review.