And, at the same time, it takes a benevolent dictator to create real change in big companies.

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Although it also upholds the consensus principle, it is more top down, with Mr Berners-Lee acting as a benevolent dictator.

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This relentless drive to add functions and features to Windows is what makes Bill Gates simultaneously admired by consumers, as a benevolent dictator who gives the people what they want, and deeply feared by competitors, who must watch him defining their own stand-alone products out of existence, one by one.

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