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   "text": "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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   "text": "The success of the open source movement itself creates a vulnerability: major corporations can pressure smaller projects to reveal their code, then take it and exploit the work more profitably than the startup can.",
   "abstract": "Another problem is that the very success of the open source move- ment allows major corporations to pressure smaller projects to reveal their code, then take it and use their power to exploit the work more profitably than the startup.",
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