Software Commons Stewardship Board

Agrinet represents a fundamental shift from platform-based agricultural coordination to protocol-based community empowerment.

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.

This analysis documents a fundamental shift in how transportation services generate and distribute economic value. Traditional taxi structures—despite regulatory capture, medallion speculation, and driver misclassification—retained approximately 60-65% of economic activity within local communities and created ownership pathways (however imperfect) for wealth accumulation. Platform ride-sharing extracts approximately 40% immediately to corporate shareholders