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	Benevolent Dictator for Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) is the informal, slightly tongue-in-cheek title given to a respected individual in the open source development community who sets general directions and makes final calls in certain situations within the scope of a given project.
		Of course, a project coordinator cannot really be anything like a dictator in the sense that he or she ultimately cannot enforce a decision, since a project fork is always possible.
		Linus Torvalds, explicitly recognising the "benevolent dictator" epithet, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life (424 words)

	Benevolent dictator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The benevolent dictator is a more modern version of the classical "enlightened despot", being an undemocratic or authoritarian leader who exercises his or her political power for the benefit of the people rather than exclusively for his or her own self-interest or benefit, or for the benefit of only a small portion of the people.
		In many cases dictators who serve in office for a very lengthy period are more likely to be regarded as benevolent, for the simple reason that they will often be forced to pay some attention to the public's interests in order to remain in power, and more importantly, be regarded as politically legitimate.
		Dictators who hold office for a brief period of time, or are simply members of a rotating dictatorial elite (for example see the Generals) may have less charismatic authority and prove to be forgettable and easier to demonize.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benevolent_dictator (545 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Benevolent Dictator for Life
		Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) is the informal, slightly tongue-in-cheek title given to an individual in the open source development community who is respected, sets general directions, and makes final calls in certain decisions within the scope of a given project.
		That BDFLs survive and flourish in such otherwise anarchistic contexts is attributed to their personal charisma and their reluctance to wield their power except in rare moments.
		Note the difference with the historical meaning of benevolent dictator, which is used in a political context.
	all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/BDFL (411 words)

	Today is one of the holiest days in the Indendent Peoples Republic of Zakkland - Pirate4x4.Com Bulletin Board
		Benevolent Dictator for life Sir Dr. ZAKK the terrible, III, esq.
		Public servies affected by teh decree: schools, churches (if any are left standing after the Jedi Purge of '02), public buildings with the exception of the Benevolent Dictator for life Sir Dr. ZAKK the terrible, III, esq.
		Those are the palces of worship for the Benevolent Dictator for life Sir Dr. ZAKK the terrible, III, esq.
	www.pirate4x4.com /forum/showthread.php?t=286242 (953 words)

	Empire of Helvetica
		This was the successor state to the Franconian Panarchic, which originated in the 1100's as a breakaway state from Thaery (Denmark).
		The Benevolent Dictator (Doge for Life) Kimmelstim did not suppress the citizens' free speech nor did he attempt change the nature of the society.
		The strength of the economy had long bee rooted in the open nature of the society and the freedom of its citizenry.
	tgroove_23.tripod.com /helvetica (320 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Tiberius
		Their attitude towards the commons was so headstrong and stubborn that not even when on trial for his life before the people did any one of them deign to put on mourning or beg for mercy; and some of them during bickerings and disputes struck the tribunes of the commons.
		Even a Vestal virgin mounted her brother's chariot with him [143 B.C.], when he was celebrating a triumph without the sanction of the people, and attended him all the way to the Capitol, in order to make it an act of sacrilege for any one of the tribunes to forbid him or interpose his veto.
		The principal events of his youth and later life, from the assumption of the gown of manhood to the beginning of his reign, were these.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/suet-tiberius-rolfe.html (11043 words)

	Comments on 10753 \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Also, most dictators for life tend to either have their life drasticly shortened or be dedictatored despite some people thinking they'd be there for the rest of their life.
		Also: "Dictator" pretty much implies they're going to be there for their entire life unless they decide they don't want to be the dictator anymore (unlikely) or they get overthrown.
		XiBe: Caesar was the original dictator perpetuus (so there's something of an inbuilt phrase-ness to it, but that's neither here nor there); he was dictator for -- ostensibly -- shorter periods but kept having himself reinstated until eventually the charade was dropped.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/10753 (1008 words)

	blog.myspace.com/jhymn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She was increasingly disillusioned and depressed during the course of her life as her religion of aesthetics failed her.
		On the one hand, she says, he was quite aimless when he joined the church and I can see that its given him a real sense of purpose: he went from being someone who had literally never read a book for pleasure, to studying the Bible for hours each day.
		Most parents want their children to have the easiest possible ride through life and, given the antipathy or even aggression that many people feel towards organised religion and especially Islam it is understandable that parents might be concerned about a child who converts.
	collect.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=3232007&Mytoken=20040903103224 (18783 words)

	Python's Development Process
		In recognition of this role, he's sometimes jokingly called the Benevolent Dictator For Life, or BDFL; the acronym is occasionally used in python-dev postings, especially in a context such as "making that change will require a BDFL pronouncement".
		The BDFL will take note of the reaction to a proposal, but is free to ignore it.
		While the BDFL could completely ignore community reaction, I can't think of an instance where he's actually done so in the face of united disapproval by the community.
	www.python.org /dev/process.html (828 words)

	Tek's Ravings :: FRIDAY...Unlike any other day of the week
		The benevelont leader/Dictator for life is not pleased.
		BENEVOLENT LEADER/DICTATOR FOR LIFE: I have given a rousing speech stating how we will never give in to the terrorist that are attacking our infrastructure.
		The Terrorist responsable for the attack met this speech with great support and applause as they were Im sure the only ones in attendance.
	www.steeldominion.com /modules/mx_blogs/weblog_entry.php?e=364 (315 words)

	Xavier Defrang
		Python creator and Benevolent Dictator For Life Guido van Rossum awarded the Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
		Belgian Python hacktivists are organizing the first European Python Conference to be held in late June 2002 in Charleroi.
		The only keynote speaker actually annouced is the Benevolent Dictator For Life himself : Guido van Rossum.
	defrang.com /articles/category/Announcement (515 words)

	Singapore Leads the Good Life Under a Benevolent Dictator
		And at the head of this thriving free-market state is a clever, socialist dictator.
		The percentage of families living in poverty dropped to 0.3% (in the U.S. it is near 20%).
		Singaporeans' average life expectancy is now 71 years.
	www.sustainer.org /dhm_archive/search.php?display_article=vn210singaporeed (877 words)

	Benevolent dictator - Meta
		It should be noted that Jimbo disputes this term.
		Possible alternatives for calling Jimbo benevolent dictator or BDFL:
		Although the deus in question is a pagan mythological figure (in a time when omnipotence was not even associated with gods in general), similar objections as against GodKing might be thinkable.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Benevolent_dictator (624 words)

	Comments for: Presidential Scandal - ja.zz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A new country were WE are the ultimate supreme (benevolent) dictator's for life.
		I suppose you can be the Lieutenant vice dictator.
		#615, 615 the current benevolent dictator goes nuts and.
	www.shacknews.com /ja.zz?id=494545 (689 words)

	Linus Torvalds (Linux Reviews)
		Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of Linux.
		He now acts as the project's coordinator (or Benevolent Dictator for Life).
		Linus was inspired by Minix (a kernel and operating system developed by Andrew Tanenbaum) to develop a capable UNIX-like operating system that could be run on a PC.
	linuxreviews.org /dictionary/Linus_Torvalds (1096 words)


		Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major programming languages on and off the web.
		The Python community refers to him as the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), a title straight from a Monty Python skit.
		He moved from the Netherlands to the USA in 1995, where he met his wife.
	conferences.oreillynet.com /cs/user/view/e_spkr/118 (96 words)

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		Python 2.0, which was released in October 2000, introduces a number of new language features, and includes some new standard modules.
		One of Guido van Rossum's virtues -- probably the one that best earns him the affectionate title "benevolent dictator for life (BDFL)" in the Python community -- is his conservatism in changing Python.
		David may be reached at mertz@gnosis.cx; his life pored over at http://gnosis.cx/publish/.
	gnosis.cx /publish/programming/charming_python_11.txt (2103 words)

	The Plone Team — plone.org
		After working for submerging.com, he gave up on corporate life and started his own company working with Zope.
		When not studying the best in Scotch single malts or Havana cigars, making wargames or other things normally reserved for megalomaniac dictators, Geir builds usablility enhancing technology for Plone or complains about the CMF architecture.
		Limi claims he is a CSS-god, although (as is common among megalomaniac dictators) he is too modest to admit it himself.
	plone.org /about/team (947 words)

	www.myspace.com/jhymn
		My main interests in life right now are God, school, my health, and keeping my nose out of the garbage...
		The thing that "self-appointed benevolent dictator for life" Jhymn doesn't mention to a lot of people is that his personal dictatorial fiefdom only covers a small area comprising of 82% of his body mass.
		Will you be the dictator for my life too I just don't have the evergy for it.
	www.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=3232007&Mytoken=20041227042010 (1880 words)

	FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: of rape & lawyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		So, should you open your newspaper one morning & see that your humble correspondent has been declared benevolent dictator for life, phone your broker immediately & go long in Free Market Hemp Rope Company stock because their order book is going to be very very full.
		I freely confess to you all, with head hung in shame, that in my more benevolent & liberal younger days, I favoured a policy of mere transportation.
		However, our Nu Labour infiltrated bleeding heart liberal criminals have feelings as well legal profession have created a system that the likes of Best can be sentenced to life imprisonment yet could be eligible for release on licence after 4 1/2 years.
	www.fmft.net /archives/001061.html (942 words)

	Ubuntu Blog » Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu
		Our Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life (sabdfl), Mark Shuttleworth, tries to clear some of the fog around the “Is Ubuntu a Debian derivative or fork?”; issue by answering a few questions.
		In fact, the questions include things like why ubuntu’s default theme color is brown, how they came up with “Warty Warthog” as a name, and how they picked the Ubuntu name, even.
		Sometimes even when the question is not phrased correctly, the discussion that follows clears up a few things.
	ubuntu.wordpress.com /2005/10/05/mark-shuttleworth-on-ubuntu (404 words)

	IT Conversations: Larry Wall - State of the Onion
		As Benevolent Dictator of the People's Republic of Perl, Larry uses his characteristic humor to liken its development to the work of a community of spies.
		Wall is known for his idiosyncratic and thought-provoking approach, as well as for his groundbreaking contributions to the culture of free software programming.
		He now works full time as a researcher and developer at O'Reilly Media, Inc., and serves as the Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Perl project.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail656.html (828 words)

	Guido gets the FSF award
		Guido van Rossum, benevolent dictator for life of python is this year's recipient for FSF award for advancement of free...
		Guido van Rossum, benevolent dictator for life of python is this year’s recipient for FSF-Award.html">FSF award for advancement of free software.
		Coding in python - even small scripts - have helped me rediscover the joys of programming.
	vsbabu.org /mt/archives/2002/02/16/guido_gets_the_fsf_award.html (152 words)

	Linux Format :: The website of the UK's best-selling Linux magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As long as the community recognises me as the BDFL (benevolent dictator for life) of Python, I have an effective veto right on any change proposals.
		At the same time, the community has an effective veto right - they can boo me. More importantly, anything that is not purely backwards compatible has a really hard time.
		It turns out that the benchmark was great for Jim to check how much of Python's object model he has correctly implemented.
	www.linuxformat.co.uk /modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=10 (2646 words)

	LtU Classic Archives
		One notion Eckel uses to explains Pythons success is that of the benevolent dictator.
		Guido is often referred to as the "Benevolent Dictator For Life", aka BDFL.
		I suppose it's related to a language or project's "bus number" (i.e., how many of its principals would have to be run over by a bus in order to kill the project?).
	lambda-the-ultimate.org /classic/message1378.html (320 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It provides a description of the project structure, rules of self-governance and guidelines for collaborative development.
		Project Structure ======================= STARS is an open source project designed around the so-called benevolent dictator model[2] which has been used in projects such as the Linux kernel.
		This document outlines the role of the BDFL (benevolent dictator for life) and those of all project members.
	stars-py.sourceforge.net /step09.ht (797 words)

	Jacques Marneweck's Blog: The state of PHP
		The project that we have been working on for the past 4 months is finally seeing the light of day: yesterday I merged the Unicode support into the public PHP tree.
		I was going to say that my part of the hard work is done, but I guess I still have to edu-ma-cate developers about Unicode and other finer things in life.
		Our Benevolent Dictator for Life, Rasmus Lerdorf, decided to email the internals list discussing a "PHP 6.0 Wishlist" which started a thread of over 150 email messages since Friday evening!
	www.powertrip.co.za /blog/archives/000442.html (324 words)

	Ted Leung on the air
		Modern society is increasing the pressure on young people to make up their minds about what they want to do earlier and earlier in life.
		I am fortunate that I am able to work in a field that I really enjoy, but I didn't really have a good idea of what it would be like to work in software before I got there.
		But recall the some open source projects are run on a "benevolent dictator model" and that some of these projects have been able to produce products (in their domain) imbued with a strong aesthetic sense -- the Python and Ruby languages come to mind here - at least according my sense of aesthetics.
	www.sauria.com /blog?flav=rss (6398 words)

	Mitch Kapor's Weblog: What to Worry About
		Some successful open source projects have solved this by having a Benevolent Dictator for Life (Linus Torvalds for the Linux kernel, Guido Rossum for Python), who is respected, sets general directions, and makes final calls.
		I'm glad to hear that you'll be assuming the role of the benevolent dictator.
		Like Steven Garrity, I'm glad to hear you'll be assuming the Benevolent Dictator role.
	blogs.osafoundation.org /mitch/000033.html (1412 words)

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