Cal.com's closure is the clearest signal yet that the implicit contract sustaining open source — companies extract value, companies fund infrastructure — has been terminated without a replacement. The Cal.com announcement and the end of naive open source framing that circulated immediately after Pumfleet's post got the diagnosis right: AI did not create this crisis, it exposed a moral economy already straining under unpaid labor and asymmetrical extraction. What changed is that AI accelerated the timeline past the point where the community could negotiate a new arrangement. The projects that…