Does open source need its own Priority of Constituencies?

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Explains W3C’s “priority of constituencies” framework and evaluates its benefits and limits when applied to open source governance. Compares the framework against the Four Freedoms and the Open Source Definition, and explores how it would handle conflicts among actors such as indie and corporate contributors, vendors, proprietary developers, end users, people affected by software, and cloud providers. Draws out what the framework reveals about complex or problematic parts of the modern open source ecosystem.

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