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[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 139 points 3 months ago (3 children)

More like it shows dangers of using only one provider for almost all IT infrastructure.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's more to it. The mono-culture is one thing, but rolling out the update to millions of computers on the same days sounds like a bad idea.

Fun fact in 2008, with nuclear submarines, the mono-culture was not that bad yet.

It's interesting to note the UK went with a Windows XP variant and not Windows Vista, which is marketed as the more reliable OS. The USA never made the same calculations: The American Navy runs on Linux.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 months ago

Navy: "we use Arch btw"

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

sounds like they rather spend that RND on pocket lining over contributing to software dev.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

Not necessarily one provider but one point of failure. In this case it was the update system that allowed one company to push something to production on other companies systems.