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The 2024 code review market is dominated by a few centralized firms that can charge exorbitant, monopoly-like prices, and those high prices do not buy a sound process because the code review process itself remains significantly flawed.

In 2024, the code review industry is dominated by several key players who can charge exorbitant and monopoly-like prices. Despite these high prices, the code review process is subject to significant flaws.

Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024), Market for Code Reviews, p. 13
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Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

• code review market as of 2024

failuresupport: arguedfailure: Priced but flawed reviewfamily: valuation-and-pricing-failureeconomicsopen-source-and-codecompliance

• extends kaal:claim:3995709-019 The code review industry is dominated by a cartel formed by the top five code audit firms, and that cartel cre...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-028 The Code Review DAO should be built as a decentralized community-driven review process that uses a bidding pro...
• restated_by kaal:claim:4755632-026 Because a limited number of players control the code review market and its outputs, the quality of code review...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-024 Centralization of the code review industry produces overpricing because clients will pay nearly any price to o...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-027 The code review market is self-undermining: one of the strongest forms of exploitation and centralized economi...

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