WikipediaOS/Benevolent dictatorship

Hypothesis
When it comes to impose authority and leadership in large, voluntary, and consensus oriented communities such as Linux, Drupal, Python or other open source software-development projects, the role of founders is to have final control over the direction of projects, like at the beginnings of Wikipedia did Jimmy Wales or Larry Sanger.

Votes/comments

 * Although as stated by Reagle (2006) and others the term benevolent dictator applied to Wales is common in Wikipedia but he and many others prefer the concept of constitutional monarch. --Esenabre 14:41, 19 January 2011 (UTC)