Below is an quote about ethical shopping, from consumerist. the emphasis is on green/not green markets, but maybe it sheds some light to the open/closed source scenario too.
"If it merely swapped the damaging goods we buy for less damaging ones, I would champion it. But two parallel markets are developing: one for unethical products and one for ethical products, and the expansion of the second does little to hinder the growth of the first... It is easy to picture a situation in which the whole world religiously buys green products, and its carbon emissions continue to soar."
besides natural selection, darwin had another form of evolution: sexual selection. it means, some genes where passed not because they were more fit, but because they were prefered by the woman.
so, going along with your analogy, what we have here is a sexual selection of the security. not aimed at more security, but to woo the upper management.
it's the same pattern when there's a award for the best movie/design/website/art and the producers start building pieces for the awards, not the viewers.
(or to be more technical minded, when a site try to adjust to the google ranking to rank better on the search engine)
There are a lot of this plaques in Brazil too...
A friend of mine even built a site talking about that: http://www.tiagoteixeira.com.br/toynbee/.
It's in portuguese, but there's all the links he could find.
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besides natural selection, darwin had another form of evolution: sexual selection. it means, some genes where passed not because they were more fit, but because they were prefered by the woman. so, going along with your analogy, what we have here is a sexual selection of the security. not aimed at more security, but to woo the upper management. it's the same pattern when there's a award for the best movie/design/website/art and the producers start building pieces for the awards, not the viewers. (or to be more technical minded, when a site try to adjust to the google ranking to rank better on the search engine)
There are a lot of this plaques in Brazil too... A friend of mine even built a site talking about that: http://www.tiagoteixeira.com.br/toynbee/. It's in portuguese, but there's all the links he could find.