I think companies can sponsor community projects just the way Apache was sponsored. Replacement for online email, documents and other services - in software. The ones that people can run on their own.
I think it is not a pipe dream. Some social and organizing groundwork needs to be done. :)
I think companies can sponsor community projects just the way Apache was sponsored.
Apache provided value to its corporate sponsors. Free software that you run on your system, like your phone, doesn't put money in the pockets of any corporations, except possibly the cell carriers who have not been at all ashamed of their cosy relationship with the NSA.
I think it is not a pipe dream. Some social and organizing groundwork needs to be done. :)