Everyone agrees open source needs funding. Sovereign tech funds and public grants sound like the right answer. They don't scale, and they end up subsidizing the same corporations extracting value from the stack. There's a better mechanism already: license obligations that are enforceable and largely unenforced. When companies actually face consequences for non-compliance, things change. They fund maintainers. They engage upstream. Their supply chains get cleaned up. Not out of good intentions. Out of risk management. This talk argues that tax money should complement that pressure, not replace it.