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I don't think your analogy works, quite. Principally, the food is a scarce resource whereas the equivalent to software would be where the community were compet
by clort 10y ago
I don't think your analogy works, quite.
Principally, the food is a scarce resource whereas the equivalent to software would be where the community were competing amongst themselves to make a single great sausage; that sausage would be placed on a table by the kerb and people outside would be able to take away as many molecularly identical copies of the sausage as they provided energy to create. The community can socialise amongst themselves and you are free to join in but there is no requirement to do so.
- Chris2048 10y ago> the community were competing amongst themselves to make a single great sausage I think a great idea was just born! #sausagecoldwar
- vacri 10y agoHowever, maintaining a project over the course of years is not effortless on the part of the provider, as explicitly stated in the article. The problem isn't in the software itself being duplicated, it's in the labour around providing the service. To continue with the (now tortured) bbq analogy: as the sausages go cold (=software ages), someone has to cook up more fresh ones.