This is why I keep telling y'all to pay for subscriptions and zap the devs of the products you use. Leave the grant money for core research, lawyers and lobbying, and major infrastructure projects, where they have little competition and everyone benefits.

Grants are the closest private equivalent to the public purse. You don't want the public purse buying your groceries or paying your Netflix subscription; you want them building sewage canals and funding astrophysics departments.