# kaal:claim:3782198-019

**Claim.** The success of the open source movement itself creates a vulnerability: major corporations can pressure smaller projects to reveal their code, then take it and exploit the work more profitably than the startup can.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to small open source projects competing with resource rich incumbents

**Source quote.**

> Another problem is that the very success of the open source move- ment allows major corporations to pressure smaller projects to reveal their code, then take it and use their power to exploit the work more profitably than the startup.

**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.** incumbent-appropriation-of-open-code  (family: regulatory-capture-and-incumbent-advantage)

**Topics.** open-source-and-code, regulatory-failure, innovation

**Keywords.** open-source, corporate-capture, startups, appropriation

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