Regarding their origins and updates. Does one person come up with an idea that they think would benefit the program, and a community decides if it’s really a good update?
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It’s more than one thing. Take MediaWiki for example, which is the software that makes Wikipedia work.
Yes, there is a community that maintains and updates that, and to get a new idea in, there is a process for submitting it, getting it approved, and into production on the servers that actually run Wikipedia.
But likewise, if you want, you can just grab all the code for yourself, make whatever changes you want, and run your own site off that, as long as you follow all the requirements of the license, like attribution and so forth.
You can even take that software and build a business around it, which is what Fandom does.
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