> Is this an efficient society, to spend the lives of hundreds of extremely intelligent people duplicating solutions purely to slow down another organization? I

> Is this an efficient society, to spend the lives of hundreds of extremely intelligent people duplicating solutions purely to slow down another organization? Isn't there a better solution to this? Monocultures are a Bad Thing, even if it seems inefficient to have multiple competing implementations of a standard. Unfortunately the article does a poor job exploring why, it just rambles about slow-moving standards, so here's a short article from the IndieWeb folks [0]. It's good that we have various browsers, operating systems, compilers, standard library implementations, etc. (Crypto might be the exception, as implementations are very hard to get right, very costly to get wrong, and are highly reusable.) [0] https://indieweb.org/monoculture#Disadvantages https://indieweb.org/monoculture#Disadvantages