It isn't possible to implement a growth strategy on a decentralised protocol. Bitcoin did not start this way. However well intentioned it may have felt to the Directors of the @OpenSats project, they have now realised that giving money as grants to select projects is an act of choosing the winners, which ultimately stifles & disincentivises open competition by raising the barriers to entry. While clearly @jack is wise to this, somehow it happened anyway. Two questions: The Directors of @OpenSats have acknowledged that grants have not had the desired effect of kick starting nostr adoption or growth, what will they learn from this and how will this affect future decision making? Will the representatives of @OpenSats see that their online comments have served to undermined their personal professional credibility in respect of the privileged positions they hold and of the organisation itself? Final comment: While disagreements are an important and essential aspect of determining which apps/services/tools will survive, nostr itself will not be diminished by disagreement, past, present or future, but only strengthened.