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		ams6110 on Oct 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Absurdity of Nobel Prizes in Science On the other hand, would we have Python, Linux, Perl, or Wikipedia without those people? They had the vision and they made it happen. Sure many other people could have done it. But those people did do it. It's much easier to be a contributor, than a founder/leader. The founders/leaders deserve more credit.

BurningFrog on Oct 4, 2017 [–]

Yeah, the did something very important for those projects.

But what do we call it?

lstyls on Oct 9, 2017 | [–]

BDFL?

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