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http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/business.bg?articleid=363
Alexios Zavras wrote:
Alexios Zavras wrote [edited]:
http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf
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gia to rolo poy prepei na paiksei to "government" stis katastaseis
monopwlioy einai anektimhtes.
Governments in free market societies have intervened in market failures --
preemptively where failure was be intolerable and responsively when
failure had become selfevident. In free market economies as in life,
some failure is essential; the ``creative destruction'' of markets builds
more than it breaks. Wise governments are those able to distinguish that
which must be tolerated as it cannot be changed from that which must
be changed as it cannot be tolerated. The reapportionment of risk and
responsibility through regulatory intervention embodies that wisdom in
action. If governments are going to be responsible for the survivability
of our technological infrastructure, then whatever governments do will
have to take Microsoft's dominance into consideration.
[...]
Where governments conclude that they are unable to meaningfully modify the
strategies and tactics of the already-in-place Microsoft monopoly, they
must declare a market failure and take steps to enforce, by regulation
and by their own example, risk diversification within those computing
plants whose work product they value. Specifically, governments must
not permit critical or infrastructural sectors of their economies to
implement the monoculture path, and that includes government's own use of
computing. Governments, and perhaps only governments, are in leadership
positions to affect how infrastructures develop. By enforcing diversity
of platform to thereby blunt the monoculture risk, governments will reap
a side benefit of increased market reliance on interoperability, which
is the only foundation for effective incremental competition and the
only weapon against end-user lock-in. A requirement that no operating
system be more than 50% of the installed based in a critical industry
or in a government would moot monoculture risk. Other branches to the
risk diversification tree can be foliated to a considerable degree,
but the trunk of that tree on which they hang is a total prohibition of
monoculture coupled to a requirement of standards-based interoperability.