Again, like I said to axod: "What I would really like to see is something like a cross between the NSF and YCombinator." Have a few experts decide which proje

Again, like I said to axod: "What I would really like to see is something like a cross between the NSF and YCombinator." Have a few experts decide which projects to fund. Give people 50 to 100K a year to cover their living expenses. Anything they produce goes under a commercial friendly license like BSD. Everybody wins. Does open source not facilitate the sharing of ideas? Would this not make it easier to stand on the shoulders of giants?