Because it is not worth doing. Meanwhile they are crowding out more practical projects these grantees could be doing.

Spiral is doing God's work IMO. While a lot the stuff seams like toys, it's just low-level, early, and exploratory work that wouldn't get done otherwise.

k00b

This is actually awesome. The company that pays should be also directing the efforts towards practicality and usability.

The alternative would be to give a grant so the developers would waste it implementing nonsense toys that no one cares about, like 99% of Spiral grants, for example.

bitcoin

Swan Acquires Specter, Maintainers of the Open Source Software and Hardware...

unofficial

This is actually awesome. The company that pays should be also directing the efforts towards practicality and usability.

The alternative would be to give a grant so the developers would waste it implementing nonsense toys that no one cares about, like 99% of Spiral grants, for example.