Frightfully silly indeed. Project constituents are people with vibrant and, yes at times organic motivations, directions, "gestalting infrastructure"
Product, hmmm, that's a land mine of a definition. Sometimes it means binaries, sometimes it means item for sale. Or service for sale.
I.e programming inkscape is my product which produces the product inkscape which is produced by the project inkscape as a public good production. :ablobcateyesflip: