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Software isn't a house. It's also not a car or whatever your favourite other analogies are.


Software is often described as "tools" and so an analogy to a drill or a magnifying glass is as apt as any. In fact a car is a good analogy to a browser because we use browsers as sort of a "second home" in our computer and it allows us to "visit websites" and a browser is a whole ecosystem unto itself.

So if software is a tool and my drill is monitoring the holes I make in stuff and its efficacy in doing that, that seems fine, but if the drill is sitting in my toolbox being a busybody and sending back everything it can find about me from within the toolbox, that drill is made by assholes, don't you agree?




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