I’m lost at “the public sector would have argued for some budget”. Xslt and libxslt are used across a no - trivial amount of deployments.
Why would the public sector feel bound to support it as opposed to pivot in the same direction the winds are blowing?
Outside the idiocy of this particular administration in the US, gov is pivoting toward more commercial norms (with compliance/etc for gov cloud and etc compliance).
> Why would the public sector feel bound to support it
The underlying axiom is the Pareto principle - that you get 80% of the benefit from the first 20% of the work, and getting the last 20% of the benefit takes up 80% of the work. The private sector will stop funding after the first 80% of benefit (it's not profitable to chase the last 20%) but the public sector is usually mandated to support everybody so it is indeed required to put in that extra effort.