I've sold out

Mario Zechner, creator of the open-source coding agent pi, announces he has joined Earendil, a startup co-founded by Armin Ronacher. He shares his history with OSS projects libGDX and RoboVM, explaining the lessons learned from commercialization gone wrong. He outlines why he chose Earendil over founding his own VC-backed startup, citing family priorities and trust in the team. Pi will remain MIT licensed at its core, with future commercial tiers (Fair Source and proprietary enterprise) planned. The GitHub repo moves to earendil-works/pi, but the community Discord and pi.dev remain unchanged.