Both Linux and Python would be absolutely fine if any of them disappeared tomorrow. There is no part of those projects that only they know about and there are m

Both Linux and Python would be absolutely fine if any of them disappeared tomorrow. There is no part of those projects that only they know about and there are more people with release rights than just the BDFL. It's usually the small projects that tend to die as soon as the main contributor vanishes, because they don't have the critical mass of people available to have redundancy.