> Using the model of the university and various tenured profs, I'm not sure what you are saying is true. But, perhaps it's a misunderstanding of what I was intending.
Tenured professors are not engaged in commercial product development.
> The goal of this "faculty" would be sustainable OSS maintenance (which involves both leadership and contribution), rather than publishing research and teaching classes.
numbsafari|4 days ago
OSS isn't commercial, per se.
Universities "ship" plenty of "products":
https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/services/hubzero
https://www.scala-lang.org/scala-core/