Z:gnu-www-ja-words-to-avoid--e86dfd-The terms =26ldquo;producer=26rdqu/en

The terms &ldquo;producer&rdquo; and &ldquo;consumer&rdquo; come from economics and its treatment of material products. Thus, using them leads people to mistakenly apply to copiable digital data all that they know about the economics of uncopiable material products. Of course, this error is exactly the one proprietary software developers want people to make.