[brlug-general] Blocking port 25 does not cure spam problems.

[Dustin Puryear]

Any monoculture is dangerous, and using Linux across the board would
indeed be another monoculture. Saying that differences between distros
is enough to prevent this is like saying that there are enough
differences between Windows 2000, XP, and Vista to ensure that no
Windows monoculture exist.

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willhill wrote:
> There is no free software monoculture.  Every distribution is different, even 
> if they come from the same upstream source and follow the same reasonable 
> standards.  They all have differences in memory footprint that Microsoft has 
> to go to great lengths to duplicate.  
> 
> As ESR has pointed out, the sooner you move the more you save.  
> 
> On Monday 24 September 2007 12:58 am, -ray wrote:
>> Replace the windows monoculture with a linux monoculture?
>> These solutions cost billions.
> 
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