The Lessons of Software Monoculture

digitalsurgeon writes "SD Times has a story by Jeff Duntemann where he explains the 'Software monoculture' and why Microsoft's products are known for security problems. Like many Microsoft enthusiasts he claims that it's the popularity and market share of Microsoft's products that are responsible, and he notes that the problem is largely with C/C++ and mostly because of the buffer overflow problems."

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Re:Tool

[Concerned Onlooker]

and stop blaming the hammer for losing your pinky.

That's kind of like ending up with a "null pointer" eh?

C++ to blame

[delta_avi_delta]

Obviously it's all the fault of C++... because no other vendor but Microsoft uses this obscure and arcane language...