There's absent technical leadership. Bureaucrats and managers and politicians can't do this. This would need someone of the Linus Torvalds or Fabrice Bellard caliber. Or Daniel Stenberg (curl). KDE Foundation has plenty of expertise too.
> There's absent technical leadership
There's also absent Open Source culture. While 20 years ago a lot of Universities had ftp sites with local developed software, this has mostly dissapeared.