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Vehemently agree. Monoculture is a huge risk to IT generally right now. I love Linux and must use it for some things, because nothing else is really supported,
by peatmoss 7y ago
Vehemently agree. Monoculture is a huge risk to IT generally right now. I love Linux and must use it for some things, because nothing else is really supported, but I really worry about a world where all the servers run Linux.
I think the thing I miss most about the 90s and early 00s was that different unix-like systems took big, bold, and divergent approaches. Computing felt less “nailed down”... like there were more possibilities.
- h1d 7y ago> I really worry about a world where all the servers run Linux. As long as BSD stays with BSD license, it won't happen.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoWhy would that matter for end users? Users really only care about cost of ownership, ease of use, support, etc. which is to say, they want to use what everyone else is using.
- h1d 7y agoWho said about end users? Many embedded systems and such use BSD because they don't have to release their changes as open source, which pretty much forbids their use of Linux. If you meant by "servers" such on clouds, maybe it's already Linux only.