kaal:claim:3782198-015

If any single person could own the copyright to software that a decentralized organization uses, that person would hold de facto power over the organization, re establishing hierarchies of power inside it.

Source quote, verbatim

If one person could own the copyright to some of the software a decentralized organization uses, then they would have de facto power over the organization, again establishing hierarchies of power within the organization.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021), Open source culture, p. 11
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

Holds when

applies where proprietary code is embedded in a decentralized organization's stack

Classification

conditionsupport: arguedfailure: proprietary-code-recentralizationfamily: recentralization-driftopen-source-and-codeinstitutional-designdecentralization

Related claims

extended_by kaal:claim:3808859-025 The degree of decentralization of an open source project is determined by the degree of hierarchy in its gover...

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