@msimoni: Interesting article: Engineering Sacrifice: How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code "The point is not to rebuild …

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The tweet shares an article discussing how open source communities must require sacrifice (not just rules) to sustain the commons, as the cost of entry preserves value.

Interesting article: Engineering Sacrifice: How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code "The point is not to rebuild the guild as it was. The point is to recover the one thing the guilds understood and we forgot: entry into a commons must cost something, or the commons dies. [...] Rules require detection. Sacrifices do not. A sacrifice does not ask what species wrote the code; it asks whether someone valued the contribution enough to carry a cost for it. This reframing also explains why open source never needed explicit filters before: the code itself was the sacrifice. Writing it by hand was costly, and the cost happened to purchase understanding along the way. Now that generation is free, the sacrifice has to move somewhere else."
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