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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

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The production of open source code, however, functions more like a commons—meaning that it is non-excludable and rivalrous—where attention is the rivalrous resource. Maintainers can’t stop users from bidding for their attention, but their attention can be depleted.

— Nadia Eghbal

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