But wait.
As I see it, we have a typical coördination problem here. There are a bunch of people that want to have brick work with the Windows terminal, they are willing to pay, but neither of them by themselves can afford the whole price. Here, of course, «price» can be metaphorical — it can be monetary, or it can be given in the form of work, or good will, or whatever else.
The wish of @Liamzy is to have a trusted coördinator (say the Haskell foundation) pool the contributions and concentrate the effort. This seems reasonable for me.
It seems you are asserting that the only solution to this coördination problem is the «null solution» where everyone waits until some single person can afford the whole price. Is such pessimism truly warranted?
For example, maybe we can deploy a smart contract on some public blockchain, such that will collect contributions and send them to the designated address (perhaps the address keys for which are given to the maintainers of brick or vty) as soon as the amount reaches a certain threshold. This does not even require trust in a central authority.
Considerations such as this make me think that there are solutions other than the null solution.