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+# Maintaining the Maintainers: Attribution as an Economic Model for Open Source
+Sid Kasivajhula (any pronouns, commonly he/him)
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+# Table of Contents
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+
+The problem of supporting open source software and contributors is a
+pressing one, and one for which we don't have good solutions.
+
+So many developers today pour their creative energies into
+freely-distributed works only to have those same works of passion turn
+into a pain in the neck when they find themselves eternally on the
+hook to provide support in exchange for minimal or no compensation,
+and often with limited assistance.
+
+Fundamentally, the reason it's this way is that traditional economic
+systems operate on <span class="underline">supply and demand</span> as the basis of value. In such
+systems, open and unlimited availability translates into zero market
+value, and consequently, open source enterprises are not economically
+sound. Even in high profile projects, developers make a living purely
+through value added services rather than from the core of the value of
+their contributions &#x2013; that is, from the code they wrote. Since, from
+a market value standpoint, <span class="underline">that code is worthless</span>.
+
+Copyright and patents (not to mention proprietary software) are an
+attempt to address this within the existing economic model by imposing
+artificial scarcity in order to induce market value. In principle,
+they also provide safeguards against appropriation. On the other hand,
+the unlimited availability of creative works is a profoundly good
+thing from the perspective of maximizing value, and thus suppressing
+it is deeply misguided. Organizations like the Free Software
+Foundation have campaigned against such restrictions for some time
+now, for related reasons; nevertheless, the problem of providing a
+viable economic basis, aside from these crude attempts, remains
+unaddressed.
+
+Attribution-based economics is a new model that aims to remedy this
+state of affairs by changing the basis of value from supply and demand
+to <span class="underline">collective recognition</span>. This is facilitated by a process of
+"inheritance attribution" where we collectively agree on the extent of
+inherence of ideas and works in other (e.g. derivative) ideas and
+works, by means of transparent and evolving standards. This model is
+capable of recognizing a much larger set of valuable contributions,
+including forms of value that cannot be coerced into a
+supply-and-demand equation. That is, in this model, there is no need
+to artificially restrict availability in order for something to be
+considered valuable. By virtue of the curious property that
+innovations on the process are themselves subject to the process of
+recognition in a self-reflective way, we gain accuracy, and by the
+property that agreed-upon standards apply equally to all, we gain
+fairness &#x2013; guarantees that are at best tenuously present in today's
+economic systems.
+
+This talk introduces some early experiments with attribution-based
+economics in the Emacs community, and some initial proposals that
+point the way forward on how, with your help, such a system might
+scale up to larger projects and communities far beyond open source.
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