A recent post on X (formerly Twitter) revealed that many popular open source projects, like WordPress, are run by a single person, often referred to as a Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL). This distinction is often seen as a lighthearted representation of the governance model where a founder of an open source project has the final say over all major decisions, usually major ones. The term originated in 1995 when the creator of Python, Guido van Rossum, was named the First Interim Benevolous Dictators For Life.