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I think that there is a similar problem in the software world when it comes to free software projects. Who created Python? Linux? Perl? Wikipedia? If your answ
by bjourne 9y ago
I think that there is a similar problem in the software world when it comes to free software projects. Who created Python? Linux? Perl? Wikipedia? If your answer is Guido van Rossum, Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall and Jimmy Wales you are about as wrong as the Nobel Prize committee. But sometimes there are a single guy who is responsible for a lot of the project even if that person is almost never credited, like Tom Lane or Fabricio Bellard.
I don't know about what to do about this unfair distribution of credit. Probably nothing.
- ams6110 9y agoOn 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 9y agoYeah, the did something very important for those projects. But what do we call it?
- lstyls 9y agoBDFL?