The chart comes from How To Tell The Open Source Winners From The Losers by InformationWeek’s Charles Babcock. I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary to have a benevolent dictator if you have a core team like FreeBSD does. In fact, projects with benevolent dictators suffer from a single point-of-failure that might only be addressed by a fork or replacement by another like-minded individual. The chart is interesting, but you can more or less skip the article, but it’s interesting.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/02/open-source-winners.html