Monarchy: An Operating System Constitution

Field notes

The charter replaces familiar open-source governance rituals with a deliberately absolute model: one maintainer decides, committee design is treated as a defect, and merge requests become petitions. It names twenty-two themes, rejects working groups and mailing-list votes, and preserves forking as the subject’s only explicit constitutional right. The page also states that the project costs zero dollars, though the underlying operating system is represented here mainly through its governance text.