Boris Mann<p>And before the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> gets too smug on that last one, benevolent dictatorship is currently the main way that <a href="https://social.coop/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> software gets managed, including and especially the current <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> codebase</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/CambrianGovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CambrianGovernance</span></a> </p><p>Besides different kinds of governance, there's alternate licenses too, like Cross License Cooperatives <a href="https://social.coop/tags/XLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XLC</span></a> <a href="https://xlcollaborative.com/introduction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">xlcollaborative.com/introducti</span><span class="invisible">on</span></a></p>