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- Mac Clones and Psystar
- Mac Clones and PsystarOpen ArchitectureMany of the issues with Windows are actually extend from open architecture. The solution isn't to replace one monoculture with another. Nor is the solution the continued service of the feudal tech economy that Microsoft has given us. The computer is now more code than silicon...
- Tags: Operating systems, Semiconductors, UNIX, Psystar, Apple Inc., tech economy
- Discussion threads 2008-04-20
- 2008: The security wishlist
- 2008: The security wishlistApple could publish code audit resultsI find that the Coverity scans of open source projects give a relatively objective assessment of the quality of open source code. I find it quite impressive that KDE is having 4.5 million lines of code scanned. The number of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, monoculture, security, Apple Inc., vulnerability, diversification, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Macs join the Army - Hooah!
- Macs join the Army - Hooah!This is going to help with security how?Yeah, yeah...monoculture and all that jazz. I work for a fortune 500 company (> $100B in market cap). Over 75K employees. When virus outbreaks occured only a small number of systems were actually infected. Only a handful of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Hooah, security, monoculture, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- An OOXML thought experiment
- An OOXML thought experimentOf course notI realize this is just rhetorical, but it's obvious that it's only Microsoft's technology that is objected to, not the idea of multiple competing standards per se. If Microsoft were to drop OOXML tomorrow and adopt ODF, the same people would insist that MS is...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Adobe PDF, Venn, monoculture, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Making "hamburger of Microsoft's cash cow"
- Making "hamburger of Microsoft's cash cow"Study versus the real world ...Then I guess the actual savings that the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California obtained can't be true since this Microsoft sponsored study proves it false:http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.htmlIn reality I would much rather have the savings by using OSS products diverted...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Now Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, software, verification process, Microsoft Windows XP, Dexterity, monoculture
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
- Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious money
- Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious moneyXP may be my last stopI think that XP is as fat as I care to get on a pc, and this new EULA sort of puts the last rail down for me.If I buy a new computer with Vista on it, so be...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), monoculture, hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MSVista, Now Microsoft
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- McAfee sends 'Falcon' after Symantec, Microsoft
- McAfee sends 'Falcon' after Symantec, MicrosoftHow?They are a monopoly and aren't afraid to use their position to crush their competition. They've gotten off with consent decrees and cash and other settlements so far for their monopoly abuse.Who knows, maybe the EU and South Korea decisions as they stand at the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Construction, Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Falcon, monoculture, software, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Windows, McAfee Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-30
- Critical back door-like vulnerability exposes Symantec anti-virus users
- In light of a potentially critical vulnerability and with over 200 million people using his anti-virus solutions, are the comments by Symantec CEO John Thompson about a "Microsoft security monoculture" coming back to haunt him?Associated Press:Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S....
- Tags: Symantec Corp., monoculture, antivirus, security
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- Mass. assault on monoculture
- Mass. assault on monocultureUse XMLStore everything in XML, this is the most flexible format. Then use XSL to convert to whatever format you wanthttp://otherthingsnow.blogspot.comSame old leopard'Q. The patent license associated with the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas states that "Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary for you...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, patent, Microsoft Corp., monoculture
- Discussion threads 2005-11-29
- VPN flaw threatens Internet traffic
- VPN flaw threatens Internet trafficAren't standards great?One standard that everybody can use? It makes life sooo much easier...Well, end users still don't know the difference between an "OK" button from the power button and thanks to this wretched homogeny, hackers and crackers are poised to bring down the whole...
- Tags: VPNs, Quality, SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet, VPN flaw, monoculture, VPN, flaw
- Discussion threads 2005-11-14
- Sun launches open-source digital rights plan
- Sun launches open-source digital rights planMonocultures are bad?I mean if the argument is that a monoculture creates a situation where one hack brings it all down, then obviously this would be a very bad idea.A new can of worms[Dream's components include software for letting different DRM systems interoperate based on...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, monoculture, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2005-08-22
- Steve Jobs sighting, monoculture and software ecosystems
- While attending the Blog Business Summit this afternoon, I ran into chief Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble right, who told me (along with IE7 product manager Dean Hachamovitch and SOAP and RSS pioneer Dave Winer) his tale of running into Steve Jobs at lunch. Star struck, Scoble introduced himself and the...
- Tags: software ecosystem, monoculture, software, open source
- Blog posts 2005-08-19
- One man's corporate standard--another man's monoculture?
- One man's corporate standard--another man's monoculture?Or just turn automatic update on and be done with it.Seems pretty simple...Corporate standardStandards certainly reduce the costs of running an IT department, and since an IT department is a G&A cost center reductions are unqualified Good Things.For example, we're in the process of some...
- Tags: Linux, Quality, UNIX, Operating systems, One-Man, Active Technology, DeFacto Standard, monoculture
- Discussion threads 2005-08-19
- One man's corporate standard--another man's monoculture?
- If you caught one of my recent blogs about zero-day exploits, a day in the life of a real IT manager, and how he's very worried about what he's seeing (in terms of what's getting through the cracks), then you also saw that Doc Searls is recommending that companies consider...
- Tags: corporate standard, monoculture
- Blog posts 2005-08-19
- Monocultures and automobiles
- Monocultures and automobilesAren't you missing the point?Shouldn't the bottom line on this issue be that more attention should be given to the security aspects of technology, rather than ignoring them in the beginning when it's created, and then never revisiting the issue to address it? These technologies are being...
- Tags: John Carroll, Time-to-Market, Technologist, HTTP, monoculture
- Discussion threads 2005-05-13
- Monocultures and automobiles
- Many have expressed concern about the use of networking technology in automobiles. Radio frequency identification chips aka RFID chips are common in the keychain "fobs" millions around the world use to open their cars. They're easy to use, and I've practically forgotten what it's like to have to put a...
- Tags: monoculture
- Blog posts 2005-05-13
- Monocultures and automobiles
- Many have expressed concern about the use of networking technology in automobiles. Radio frequency identification chips aka RFID chips are common in the keychain "fobs" millions around the world use to open their cars. They're easy to use, and I've practically forgotten what it's like to have to put a...
- Tags: monoculture
- Blog posts 2005-05-13
- Microsoft's Portable Media Centers: a strong monoculture headstart
- Earlier this year, I wrote a column that asked whether Microsoft's monoculture might take the 'pod' out of podcasting? In an online whiteboard session see the video I explain the phenomenon in more detail and talk about how a monoculture in media player technologies could also lead to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-05-06
- Schwartz hints Sun may take lead on thwarting a potential media and DRM monoculture
- The technology landscape is, yet again, undergoing some rapid and massive shifts. The world finally succumbed to the gravity of the Internet and the resulting democratization of information, business, and technology is giving birth to new global markets and huge opportunity. But along with the next tidal wave of technological...
- Tags: Digital media, digital-rights management, monoculture, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Internet
- Blog posts 2005-03-21
- Is the fear of the monoculture genuine?
- Is the fear of the monoculture genuine?Wrong monocultureA local monoculture has advantages. For instance, it lets me water the whole garden uniformly rather than worry about some of the plants being underwatered at the same time others are overwatered (likewise pH and nutrients.)On the other hand, it's a bad...
- Tags: Linux, Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, monoculture
- Discussion threads 2005-02-03
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