Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The benevolent dictator is the most common form of leadership in the open
> source community.
A less loaded, equivalent term would be "ruling by fiat."
My 0.02 ecu's again.
Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Well, perhaps you are right. My experience in free software projects is
rather limited to some porting groups which had no leadership per se, but
rather worked cooperatively. I have not worked on the Linux kernel except to
submit fixes to the occasional device driver in the pre-1.0 days, when I
