My impression is this is a common phenomenon in the software engineering community, probably mainly because a significant fraction of the community are young and/or inexperienced (e.g. number of programmers double every 5 years, which means 50% of programmers have less than 5 years experience).
There are plenty of examples from streamers to serious programmers but the most common is probably the benevolent dictator for life personalities for numerous software projects.
There are plenty of examples from streamers to serious programmers but the most common is probably the benevolent dictator for life personalities for numerous software projects
Can you provide any examples from either of these?
I feel like you may be confusing "people with strong opinions" with "narcissistic cult leader."
Richard Stallman is a classic example of this. Brilliant man who produced many valuable things while having a strong philosophical basis underpinning them. As a person he has also engaged in concerning behavior that was hard to separate from his contributions to the Open Source community.
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My impression is this is a common phenomenon in the software engineering community, probably mainly because a significant fraction of the community are young and/or inexperienced (e.g. number of programmers double every 5 years, which means 50% of programmers have less than 5 years experience).
There are plenty of examples from streamers to serious programmers but the most common is probably the benevolent dictator for life personalities for numerous software projects.
Can you provide any examples from either of these?
I feel like you may be confusing "people with strong opinions" with "narcissistic cult leader."
Richard Stallman is a classic example of this. Brilliant man who produced many valuable things while having a strong philosophical basis underpinning them. As a person he has also engaged in concerning behavior that was hard to separate from his contributions to the Open Source community.