Jodson Graves

Proprietary platforms extract rent precisely because the communities using them never learn to build or hold their own tools. The goal of COSDS is to train people — university students, working professionals, and communities themselves — in how to build and maintain open-source software, and in doing so to improve the socioeconomic resources available on the internet

How do 1.5 million wildebeest coordinate an 1,800-mile migration with no leader, no parliament, and no CEO — while three billion of us can't coordinate on Facebook? An argument for why software licensing, specifically AGPL-3, is the infrastructure of a free society.

NTARI protects the digital commons through reciprocal licensing while maintaining enforcement capability to prevent re-privatization of community-developed infrastructure.