...PyQt is now the default Qt binding, as some users were experiencing 
stability problems
with spyder...
http://continuum.io/blog/anaconda-2-released

I feel like claims that Anaconda is completely free now are false
https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/

Why am I upset about it? With so much buzz and marketing power that 
Continuum
delivers, I expected guys to be active somehow in the open source part of 
the ecosystem
and pay attention at the values of the project that are not only at the top 
of their IDE list
http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/ide_integration.html
but also important enough to break dozens (hundreds?) internal application. 
That's why a
major version change.

I am not saying that everybody here wants non-restricted Qt bindings on 
Windows. People
usually don't care, but after MS killed Nokia, so that there is no PySide 
team anymore,
I'd expect a company like Continuum to be able to calculate the impact made 
and provide
at least some support value back to PySide project. Reporting bugs at 
minimum.

It is just my personal rant, but...
Getting the best out of open source projects, wrapping them in package and 
marketing it
at a conferences. This is not what you expect from a scientific company 
that holds the
keys to open source, algorithms and processing. You expect them to be on a 
edge of
researching the economy, the system that powers it - the ecosystem - to 
make sure that
useful agents survive, not die. You expect them to be leaders that explain 
the trends, how
the stuff works, to provide some hope for this darkness. And what you see 
from the
ecosystem point of view? Just another parasite trying to survive in this 
"economy".

Just to make clean about the matter. I am sitting right now trying to code 
some stuff for
the money that will be plenty enough for food or buying new clothes, I see 
people quitting
social science, biology, neural networks labs just to earn cash and write 
dumb 
games or join outsourcing business (because, well, it is boring for US 
developers to write
and maintain code for their own products). My "quality of life" directly 
depends on the
amount of people involved in research jobs, because I hope that one day it 
will be possible
to find a solution for my personal issue. Hoped. If money always kills the 
game, it is
pointless for me to continue in the open source race, because I will never 
be able to
afford the costs of the outcome as I am not as smart as others to earn some.

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