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That “autonomy” framing un-muddies a lot of muddy waters.

We can view maintainer burnout as a loss of autonomy. We can view private capture and extraction as loss of autonomy. We can view malicious actors injecting vulnerabilities as loss of autonomy.

•All• commons have a form of governance, whether intentional or de facto. Governance is the thing that can protect autonomy or doom it. It’s time for open source to get serious about it.

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