[LINK] The cost of monoculture
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
brd at iimetro.com.au
Tue Jan 30 09:11:05 AEDT 2007
The cost of monoculture
http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s
What would you say if I told you that there was a nation that was at the
forefront of technology, an early adopter of ecommerce, leading the
world in 3G mobile adoption, in wireless broadband, in wired broadband
adoption, as well as in citizen-driven media. Sounds like an amazing
place, right? Technology utopia?
Wrong.
This nation is also a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer
users are on Microsoft Windows. This nation is a place where Apple
Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or
interact with any of the nation's e-government sites online. In fact,
Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from
any of these types of transactions because all encrypted communications
online in this nation must be done with Active X controls.
Where is this nation?
South Korea.
..... etc
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Regards
brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Sydney Australia
brd at iimetro.com.au
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