I think this has a lot of potential for a bit further down the road, and I wouldn’t just restrict it to Automattic.

That's what I meant , By what I found You is making crowdfunding to get 10K/month so he can work fukk time in Vue, he's almost alone there. Now Imagine pay this guy ( more than that obviously) and add some people to just work on Vue. That's an investment. That's what FB did with React but we know by far that Automattic wouldn't act back to the community the same way FB did, so probably Automattic would be investing in another great open project and creating another big monster , so big that React and it's derivatives could stay with their "intellectual property" that nobody will gonna miss them and they probably will fade away and be swallowed by their ignorance, because this IP clause is just that a big ignorance.