"RFPs put people in competition with each other, they do not encourage collaboration"

- panelist at a public health event I am attending

But doesn't any funding mechanism that has a fixed amount of money to give away put people in competition with each other? What are the best ways to minimize this?

Protocol guild starts from the view that Ethereum is created through the efforts of many individuals in collaboration. Rough consensus, multi-client, credibly neutral 

The funding mechanism should match this reality

Time boxed QF rounds & rpgf pit people against each other in their campaign for allocator attention