In his WCUS talk and elsewhere, Matt Mullenweg built an argument for Five for the Future on the foundation of the Tragedy of the Commons, casually dismissing Elinor Ostrom’s work to affirm the validity of Hardin’s “TC” theory to maintain the premise under which he’s about to attack WP Engine. Rather than staking the philosophy of an open source project and its ecosystem on this fundamentally flawed, baseless theory, we need discard it and build on a better foundation.