You could have a "Foundation" funded by corporate stakeholders. It doesn't even have to have a scope as broad as all open source software; it could be a "Linux

You could have a "Foundation" funded by corporate stakeholders. It doesn't even have to have a scope as broad as all open source software; it could be a "Linux Foundation". Google and Amazon and Netflix and whomever else uses Linux would be members of this Foundation on some kind of tiered plan, and their membership fees would go to maintaining critical, Linux-adjacent software.