kaal:claim:3782201-013

An open source design is necessary to run any program in a peer to peer environment, because decentralization means the source code must be shared by all if it is not controlled centrally.

Source quote, verbatim

An open source design is necessary to run any program in a PRP environment, because decentralization means the source code needs to be shared by all if it isn't controlled centrally.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021), Reputation systems and Orwellian nightmares, p. 18
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201 · source PDF

Cite as

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

Holds when

peer to peer environments with decentralized governance

Classification

conditionsupport: arguedopen-source-and-codedisclosuregovernance-design

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