Description: Python language in the early 1990s at CWI in Amsterdam, responding to an inner desire for a more elegant and powerful scripting language. He now leads the PythonLabs development team at Zope Corporation. Guido will be presenting a session on the State of the Python Union at O\'Reilly\'s upcoming Open Source Convention. He recently took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to answer some questions about Python and open source.