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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by kobeya on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:44AM (#14298545)
> Ask yourself this: who is the most famous maintainer you can think of?

I can think of a few, actually. Pretty much every BDFL in every open source project ever. Most famous is probably Linus Torvalds. He invented the first version of Linux, yes, but he's been primarily a maintainer not inventor ever since.

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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by nightcracker on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:52AM (#14298567)
> (Not someone who devised an innovation and then maintained it - pure maintenance)

Everything you've mentioned doesn't count.

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