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@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The [Tragedy of the Commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_common
> a situation in which individual users, who have open access to a resource unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use, act independently according to their own self-interest and, contrary to the common good of all users, cause depletion of the resource through their uncoordinated action in case there are too many users related to the available resources > a situation in which individual users, who have open access to a resource unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use, act independently according to their own self-interest and, contrary to the common good of all users, cause depletion of the resource through their uncoordinated action in case there are too many users related to the available resources
While the Bystander Effect is usually used for social situations, the Tragedy of the Commons is most often described in terms of environmental situations. A canonical example is that of a number of woodcutters: each woodcutter has an individual incentive to cut down as many trees as they possibly can to increase their individual wealth. However taken together, all woodcutters are likely to completely exhaust the forest. Despite this being something that negatively affects all woodcutters, because of the incentives involved, each woodcutter is incentives to hurt themselves in the long-term to benefit themselves short-term, because the long-term consequences are abstracted among "the commons" of all woodcutters. While the Bystander Effect is usually used for social situations, the Tragedy of the Commons is most often described in terms of environmental situations. A canonical example is that of a number of woodcutters: each woodcutter has an individual incentive to cut down as many trees as they possibly can to increase their individual wealth. However taken together, all woodcutters are likely to completely exhaust the forest. Despite this being something that negatively affects all woodcutters, because of the incentives involved, each woodcutter is incentivized to hurt everyone - including themselves - in the long-term to benefit themselves short-term, because the long-term consequences are abstracted among "the commons" of all woodcutters.
I posit that both effects are at play as FLOSS projects grow, to the detriment of the project at large and individual contributors and users over time. I posit that both effects are at play as FLOSS projects grow, to the detriment of the project at large and individual contributors and users over time.