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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.",
   "abstract": "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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   "text": "The automated maintenance system is the UDLC's primary defense against the entropy that has rendered every previous attempt at universal private law either rigid or irrelevant.",
   "abstract": "Far from a mere cleanup routine, the automated maintenance system constitutes the UDLC's primary defense against the entropy that has rendered every previous attempt at universal private law either rigid or irrelevant.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242",
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