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 Lyn, perhaps you can help expand the discourse on this topic to deeper levels, given your background. 

Of course it’s important to fund open source devs. But probably Saylor has other concerns (perhaps like mine) maybe related to ossification, dev centralization, and how powerful technologies are being added to the protocol without a full assessment of their long term impact (eg. segwit and ordinals). 

We just witnessed how some malicious actor tried to get a back door into Linux via XZ utils.

More code means more bugs and we can’t just roll-back to an earlier version like centralized systems. 

We need to fund more security auditors and decentralize development. IMHO, we don’t need to fund more devs to “innovate” faster.