it's a curious situation, because with naturally scarce goods like grazing land, the best we can do is control access to them fairly, so our intuitions about community come from two million years of that. but software is knowledge, not land or capital goods. it conflicts with our intuitions
would you speak of the community of air-breathers, the community of users of the pythagorean theorem, the community of speakers of english? that's the kind of community we're talking about when we talk about the linux community or the rails community