# kaal:claim:3782198-018

**Claim.** Open source projects sometimes fail to attract the quality of developer that a closed source project can reliably procure with greater funding and control.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- applies to projects operating under maximal transparency without funding

**Source quote.**

> Sometimes open source projects fail to attract the necessary quality of developer that a closed-source project can reliably procure with more fund- ing and control.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Contemporary Decentralization* (2021), Open source culture, page 16

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

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e7e1378e3eed06cace6534e7792a7307d607d18bc6beb4ac45896476280728e4` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Contemporary%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** talent-shortfall-under-open-source  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** open-source, developer-quality, funding, closed-source

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-019

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