I think there is another alternative to plain government spending, and that’s inter-university cooperation.

It’s pushing FOSS options for education on the comp sci departments, and collaborating to make it work there.

It’s is then gating every advance behind a “non-commercial, education only” license a bunch of law departments glue together.

From there, it’s universities actively allocating staff workload to help maintain key FOSS infrastructure.

From there you’ve laid the foundation on which things can be built.