And neither will be adopted by the Linux community, which is necessary for this whole thing to move forward. They're both proprietary and in the way. Rocks in the stream. It's growing larger and larger, and yet inside every point in that sphere is visible to every other one. That's the architecture of a sphere.
Nothing stands between any two points.
It's the verb for creating a world. Remember, this thing is in outer space. It's not connected to anything else. If you want to live here, you have to bring your own sustaining structures, foods and the rest of it. But since we're talking about authors, I also like Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian's Information Rules , which makes pragmatic distinctions between the economy of building things and the economy of building information.