On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:52:42AM -0700, Mike Bresnahan wrote: [snip] > An analogy can be made to biology. If all humans shared the same DNA, > then the chance of the entire population being wiped out by a single > disease/virus/becteria is quite high. Our diversity keeps us alive. > So are the recent IIS worms an argument for diversity? I think so, at > least if security is your only criteria. That's occurred to me too -- we're setting ourselves up for a digital Potato Blight. Of course, it's Billy Boy who's causing it, because his closed standards enforce monopoly and thus monoculture. Lucky thing the potato interface has open licensing. :-)