I think the comparison between the open source community and terrorism is a bit of a stretch, even ignoring the provocative implication that open source is some

I think the comparison between the open source community and terrorism is a bit of a stretch, even ignoring the provocative implication that open source is somehow an act of violence against software development. Mainly, terrorists are necessarily adversarial, whereas the open source community doesn't have to be. I think a more apt comparison would be the police, or even government in general, and the community they serve. People tend to be happier, and more work gets done, when the government listens to and reacts to the concerns of its constituency, than when it doesn't. So it goes for open source.