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“Hard fork” is a term that often incites heated debates. Some communities <a href="https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/TechnicalWhitePaper.md#governance" target="_blank">explicitly embrace on-chain governance</a>, such as freezing accounts and changing smart contract code on-the-fly, while others are known to be fiercely rooted in the “you don’t hard fork, ever” camp.