Interesting -- I didn't realize until reading your bio that you were actually in charge of FtB, in which case the people for which you'd be using the metaphor h

Interesting -- I didn't realize until reading your bio that you were actually in charge of FtB, in which case the people for which you'd be using the metaphor hold the idea of recipes as personal property pretty close to the chest (just like how you wouldn't use the metaphor of amorphous screenwriting to describe GitHub to a novelist.) Maybe a body of law is a better analogy? More or less decentralized, changes (both semantic and otherwise) over time that are proposed by an independent body and go through a review process, etc.