Guitars And Rock Climbing, But As Analogies For Less Glamorous And Immediately Appealing Actitivies

I was explaining to a friend a few days ago the thing I mention in my RC & MetaFilter post, about how I'm trying to avoid saying "community" when I might mean "constituency" or "group" or similar. And perhaps we should say "society" sometimes -- a group that shares some norms and heritage and places to talk with each other, but doesn't necessarily take responsibility for anything. And how the phrase "the open source community" is laughable. But wait, they said, noting that in open source every...

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