[NCLUG] new idea about os's

[Dennis Clark]

Yup,

   Mother Nature started it.  It is why there is a national seed
repository in the US to store up seeds from various strains of crops
so that a single bug can't wipe out the country.  Farmers that have
used that repository instead of the GMO stuff that the industrial
farmers use have benefited from crop blights that wiped the huge
farms out on occasion.

DLC

J. Paul Reed wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2003 at 00:54:01, bill ehlert arranged the bits on my disk to say:
> 
> 
>>here's a very new (to me, anyway) idea
>>about os's  --  whether they be windows,
>>linux, mac os, bsd, whatever:
>>
>>that whenever there's one with an
>>almost-monopoly position, there's
>>an almost-irresistable target for
>>crackers.
> 
> 
> This is a very, VERY old idea merely applied to networked operating
> systems, specifically that of homogeneity of species.
> 
> This being Colorado, I'm sure someone on the list knows more about it in
> the classical context than I do, but there's a reason why having a field
> full of one genetic family of crop is bad. When the bugs/virii/plagues
> come, the entire crop is decimated.
> 
> Ma Nature patented the idea, I think. ;-)
> 
> Later,
> Paul
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