kaal:claim:3782198-016

Paid corporate contributors are a source of tension in open source communities: they can outwork and push out volunteers, then leave once their employer's duties are complete, leaving no one to maintain and upgrade the software.

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These workers often devote far more effort to a project and sometimes push out volunteers. Then the paid workers leave once their duties are complete, leaving no one to maintain and upgrade the software in the future.
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021), Open source culture, p. 14
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: volunteer-crowd-out-and-abandonmentfamily: collective-action-and-coordination-failureopen-source-and-coderegulatory-failure

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