A globally unified governance framework for Open Source
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Explains how international arbitration could serve as a transnational governance layer for Open Source by mapping legal mechanisms onto existing socio-technical institutions; uses examples from the Java Virtual Machine and Ceph to show how abstraction layers create flexibility and unification across incompatible systems. Argues that Open Source’s distributed, fork‑based institutions provide a “socio‑technical secure by design” separation of powers and that an arbitration agreement embedded in an eligible legal body could harmonize security provisions between sovereign states and the global Open Source ecosystem.
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