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  • Although Ubl will happily tout how many non-Googlers contribute to AMP code, at the end of the day, he works at Google and is the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life) on the AMP project.

    Inside Google’s plan to make the whole web as fast as AMP Dieter Bohn 2018

  • He has been referred to by many as the “benevolent dictator for life,” or BDFL, of WordPress, but in recent months as a spat with an underdog rival unfolded on social media, Mullenweg definitely has come across as more dictatorial than benevolent.

    Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress? 2018

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  • As in, "benevolent dictator for life".

    July 22, 2008

  • Bendigo & Districts Football League.

    July 22, 2008

  • Big Dumb Fudge-Lugger

    July 22, 2008