(ref.doc)ACM-0499

Communications of the ACM
April 99
Evolvable Hardware

p 33 Lessons from Open-Source Software Development
by Tim O'Reilly
  IBM adopted the Apache Web server
  Software: Product or Service?
  Just as the printing press enabled the spread of knowledge during
  the Renaissance period, the Internet is enabling large-scale
  cooperative development efforts today.
  ... a well-defined extension mechanism that allows people to "roll
  their own" without having to get permissions of a central architect.

p 101 Thinking objectively, by Guerraoui and Fayad
OO Distributed Programming Is Not Distributed OO Programming
  Distribution transparency is impossible to achieve in practice.
  Precisely because of that impossibility, it is dangerous to provide
  the illusion of transparency.