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>where the natural consequences of monoculture will make the market more resilient. ...This is not a natural consequence of monoculture. You trade resilience/f
by salawat 2y ago
>where the natural consequences of monoculture will make the market more resilient.
...This is not a natural consequence of monoculture. You trade resilience/fault-tolerance for exposure to high-breadth, high-severity existential breakdowns.
The only people who like monocultures are those tasked with optimizing costs. There, monoculture looks great. In terms of actually building things that fail gracefully though, fuggedaboutit.
- jonhohle 2y agoI’m advocating for vendor diversity through market action, not government intervention. That’s what made this situation likely in the first place: requirements for a particular type of security software provided by only a few vendors.