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by IshKebab 354 days ago
> I don't know what else can be done

I don't think there's anything technical you can do. I think it would require:

1. A stable income stream that doesn't depend on something at odds with your goals (i.e. not like Mozilla).

2. Incorporate as a non-profit with rock-solid "we're never going to transition to for-profit" legal terms.

I think Wikipedia is probably the closest thing we have to that, but even they don't have a reliable income source. I mean, they have more money than they know what to do with and waste most of it on outreach nonsense rather than putting it into an endowment... but it's not exactly a reliable source of money.