# Anticommons

`kaal:entity:anticommons`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `anticommons`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2026.

**2021**

- [3808859-024](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-024) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Expanded patentability chills open source contribution because developers fear inadvertent infringement yet typically lack the knowledge and skills to determine whether their contribution infringes an existing software patent.
  > As a result of the accelerating patentability of open source solutions, developers increasingly fear they could inadvertently infringe patents during the open source development process.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

**2026**

- [6192998-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-017) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- When foundational work earns no downstream credit, the contributor's optimal strategy shifts to hoarding knowledge or publishing only when full value can be captured personally.
  > Economic consequence: Alice has no incentive to share insights that others can build on. Optimal strategy becomes hoarding knowledge or publishing only when you can capture full value yourself.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/anticommons.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.