I agree that it's a crazy comparison ... but I've heard non-technical people say very similar things. I was trying to point out that our perception of our indu

I agree that it's a crazy comparison ... but I've heard non-technical people say very similar things. I was trying to point out that our perception of our industry's practices may not be the way others perceive us. Other misunderstandings are: "I can't believe they just shut down my favorite application for doing X" - spoken by people without paid accounts. "That company has so much money you think they'd do X" - (most commonly this one is "add my requested but obscure feature) - spoken by someone who doesn't realize that a company can be well-funded but "burning through cash" unprofitable.