Monoculture wars
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The feedback on my recent column about the advantages of monoculture — that is, standardizing on one platform or vendor — was anything but monolithic. Any discussion of monoculture risks devolving into anti-Microsoft ranting. One reader ended an otherwise rational e-mail by proving that Godwin’s Law (“As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one”) also applies to e-mail discussions: “Remember, Hitler wanted a monoculture.” That’s the first time in the three-plus years I’ve been writing this column that I’ve elicited even the faintest Hitler comparison. I guess I’ve finally arrived.
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