TheCorruptor: I've been on Demon ADSL for a while now, and have no complaints. It's not the cheapest, but you do get a static IP address.
nymia: has a dream of what software construction should be like ten years hence. I had that dream ten years ago ;) Plus ca change...
But seriously, check out Brad Cox for a persuasive argument on why the barriers to pluggable, componentised software are organisation, legal and commercial, rather than technical. If the barriers were solely technical, it would have happened by now.
