0install - The Antidote To App-Stores?

tal197 writes: "Zero Install, the decentralised cross-distribution software installation system, announced 0install 1.0 today, after 8 years in development. 0install allows authors to publish directly from their own web-sites, while supporting familiar features such as shared libraries, automatic updates and digital signatures. The end of the walled-gardens of traditional app-stores and Linux distributions and the beginning of a true "Web of Software"?"