It's been done for utilities a few times but I've never heard of it being done for a software company. TBH, I can't think of any software I'd like the government to manage this way (IMO, Linux and the Linux Foundation is a better model).

It's called eminent domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent...

In terms of focus, it lets me punt a decision. Instead of having to decide to not explore something now, I can save it for later and decide later.

Glitch coffee in Tokyo, if you haven't been there.

I remember manually configuring muxers in ALSA, pulse at least solved that problem. But is there any reason you're not using pipewire?

Now you're thinking like a lawyer.