Clearly you are smart enough to realise what point I was trying to make, although it was perhaps tangential to your original question.
I do apologise for replying to you. If only HN would have a feature to block me from replying to you in the future.
Why isn't there a public open-source fund [...]
I know it doesn't exist. The non-existence thereof was what prompted that question. I have no idea what point you're attempting to make.