Glen wrote: "It has always struck me that diversity and co-evolution constitute a superset of obscurity."
I posit that co-evolution moves faster in today's open source world, because: 1) More independent thinkers. Drones tend not to care, and not caring leads to not thinking. Passive aggressive compliance, brain rot. 2) Improved access to information -- the source code, and a community around it. This allows motivated individuals to educate themselves rapidly about things, and to be empowered to use this information. 3) A culture that has low tolerance for secrets. 4) Similar incentive structures for Linux in the server space as would exist for the Windows Server line. On the other hand, the Windows world surely has more people working on finding vulnerabilities. But many of those people are working without direct knowledge of how their target works. They have to infer it. Perhaps that has benefits, but it has costs too. Marcus -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
