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The effect of ownership imperatives has caused there to be absolutely no body of software as literature. It is as if all writers had their own private "companies" and only people in the Melville company could read Moby-Dick and those in Hemingway's could read The Sun Also Rises. Can you imagine developing a rich literature under these circumstances? There could be neither a curriculum in literature nor a way of teaching writing under such conditions. And we expect people to learn to program in exactly this context?

Also, the first half of the presentation-paper has an interesting discussion of "vertical" vs "horizontal" software systems.