# kaal:claim:3782198-016

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- observed in the Apache Software Foundation's volunteer community

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Contemporary Decentralization* (2021), Open source culture, page 14

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

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**Failure mode.** volunteer-crowd-out-and-abandonment  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** open-source-and-code, regulatory-failure

**Keywords.** open-source, volunteers, corporate-capture, maintenance, apache

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