Opinionated BDFLs tend to elicit opinionated feedback. Rails (DHH) and Linux (Linus) tends to have similar levels of "drama" or whatever you want to call it. Ho

Opinionated BDFLs tend to elicit opinionated feedback. Rails (DHH) and Linux (Linus) tends to have similar levels of "drama" or whatever you want to call it. However, is that a bad thing? DHH and Linus have a lot of passion, and produce a great product... It would be interesting to compare and contract that style of management with something like Python's PEP. Is there any academic research on that sort of things? Guido has made equally tough calls, and you don't see things like PythonDrama.com out there. (Insert joke about Monty Python being a comedy troupe here...)