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2003-09-28

Microsoft’s Lumper Crop

Just as agricultural monocultures have resulted in disaster1 when a disease wipes out an entire crop, the ubiquity of Windows threatens the resilience of the internet2 because viruses targeted at Windows can spread so rapidly.

1. EPA History - The Irish Potato Famine

2. Cyber InSecurity: The Cost of Monopoly

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Comments

Sort of a case of “Guns, Germs & Steel” and silicon viruses(?)

2003-09-28 21:51 | Benj

  1. ‘internet’ should be capitalized.

  2. you have too much time on your hands.

2003-09-29 19:39 | Gramaticus

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