On 14 Mar 2005 17:51:41 -0500, Robert Treat
<xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 17:20, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
\> >
> > The term 'benevolent dictatorship' also stems from the FOSS vernacular
> > and terminology - not sure if that would be read the same way by
> > someone new to FOSS.
>
> Does it? I was certainly familiar with that term before I got into OSS,
> but maybe thats just me...
Well, for me at least the first time I ever heard the term was Linus,
and then Larry Wall, then Guido from the python camp.....
-- Mitch