On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Bill Connell <bconn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The software analogy is flawed, because the vast majority of software
>> users don't maintain and modify their own apps, but they certainly can
>> work on their own bikes.
> 
> The analogy is apt here. A lot of folks on this list do work on their own 
> bikes.
> 
> And the software I work on is open source so it is much more apparent
> like bikes, to work on.


Apt for you, sure, but a lot more people work on their bikes than on software. 
The analogy is works if you compare adjusting threaded headsets to coding in 
Java, and threadless to writing HTML (no compiler needed).

Bill

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