> I think you do need to pay some living stipend to translators and core authors I agree. Institutions like MIT have the monetary resources to support things l

> I think you do need to pay some living stipend to translators and core authors I agree. Institutions like MIT have the monetary resources to support things like this, but they just don't want to. Universities have still not figured out a great model to hire people from industry to help them with their problems. Some places, like the Broad Institute have.