From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-04T14:11:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Boy I love the Ruby community

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:34:57AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >
> Seriously, though, someone ought to do a sociological study of 
> "benevolent dictators" like Matz, DHH, Guido and Linus (Torvalds) and 
> the communities that have formed around them.

Those are some excellent examples of nice people who are community
leaders by dint of having created the focus of the community in the
first place.  I'm simply astounded that Larry Wall didn't make your
list, however.  He's sort of one of the pioneers of community accretion
in this tradition.

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