Ashik draws parallels between FOSS (Free and open source software) and Metal music. Very interesting points there. Check it out.

• Both are creativity at work .  People do make music and software for money. But the quality of something that they make for the sheer pleasure of creating something is so much more awesome !!
• Crappy metal bands are clobbered off the scene quickly. They are also welcomed back with equal speed when they produce awesome music. Pretty much the same thing happens in the FOSS world.  KDE 4.0 was bashed and trampled on without mercy. But everyone welcomed KDE 4.2 and all the KDE 4.0 bad blood were forgotten when they saw the improvements they made.
• Community is central in FOSS and Metal. Without them, the creative output goes unused, and that loss of purpose of art is discouraging to the bands/developers.
• Community contributes by generating and maintaining a large amount of meta information. Help documentation and wikis etc for FOSS, lyrics, fan sites, musical tabs,wikis etc for Metal.