The analogy works if you think of RMS as a nailgun.

A nailgun hitting nails? This is going nowhere..

	▲	CalRobert 36 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Much as a hammer tacker hits tacks internally, so a nailgun strikes the nails within itself.
	▲	behringer an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		well it drives nails, we've lost the plot!