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@shanecurcuru Right! They map somewhat to levels 2, 3, 5 and 6 here:

coiled.io/blog/stages-of-openn…

/by @mrocklin
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Concerns about multi-institution engagement also overlap with thoughts by @webmink on the counter-"rights ratchet" checklist[0], as well as the C4[1] and the Cooperative Technology manifesto[2] (f.k.a. "Communal Software").

There is an awareness in Open Source and Free Software that the license is nothing more than a legal-technical tool and the bare minimum, and the governance around the software development matters, but there is no singular named focus point and vision yet, the way Free Software was in the 80s and 90s, and Open Source was in the 00s and 10s.

Maybe we'll have one in the 20s if the MongoDB etc pattern keeps repeating.

[0] e.g. meshedinsights.com/2021/03/02/…
[1] zguide.zeromq.org/docs/chapter…
[2] cooperativetechnology.codeberg…

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