Public money would also mean regulation and I doubt the IA wants to be regulated. They already see themselves apart from things like web standards given their a

Public money would also mean regulation and I doubt the IA wants to be regulated. They already see themselves apart from things like web standards given their approach to robots.txt [1] 1: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...