@luis_in_brief I like how you reframe the common-pool resource in software as the maintainers' time rather than the software itself. I think we'll have to do that sort of reframing to apply the theory to the Web too.

Do you have pointers to the good researchers working on this? I was thinking to write Prof. McGinnis @ Indiana (either on my own or the W3CTAG's behalf) based on having found https://mcginnis.pages.iu.edu/iad_guide.pdf, but you might have a head start.