On 11/08/2013 07:58 AM, William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ...

I think having a heterogeneous environment is a good thing for a lot of
different reasons, not just because it makes malware propagation more
difficult but also because it forces people to think about the
compromises
being made in their implementations.

It also means that people developing more complex systems based around a
computer (like a DAW for instance) have more choices. Often those
systems
have requirements which are very different than those of "general
purpose"
computing appliances and it is good to have such choices available
when they
are needed.

No argument -- in principle -- but isn't Windows+Mac+Linux sufficiently
heterogeneous?

Mac OSX and Linux are cousins (both derived from from AT&T Unix).
Windows is based on patching and quilting and something called "Quick
and Dirty Operating System".

The fastest computers on earth all run Linux.