On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:27:33 GMT, lid (Alun Jones [MS
MVP]) wrote:

In article , "kurttrail"
wrote:
2 days between patch release and the nasties release. It was a lucky thing
that it wasn't a MS hole. If you haven't noticed, things are speeding up
and a Zero-day bug is just a few years down the bend, if we're lucky. The
mono-culture of the Microsoft desktop is just too big a target to be missed,
eventually someone is gonna hit the bulls-eye. So we, as a society that
security-conscious at present, can do one of two things, find ways to break
up the mono-culture to distribute the threat amongst may targets, or bunker
up at the MicroAlamo, and wait to be overrun.

"How shall we f- off, oh master?" - Monty Python's Life of Brian.

You know that if you were to persuade the world to drop the monoculture and
disperse, they would ask you _which_ solution to disperse to, and would ask
you to direct them to one. They'd get peeved if you gave them a choice.

"Yes, we are all individuals." - Crowd, Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Monoculture is a fact, and always will be. Poor Microsoft, they're stuck
with being the monoculture of choice today. It used to be IBM. Who knows -
maybe a few years down the road, it'll be someone else.

We can only hope and wish........