Technology monocultures are the result of non-diverse systems that provide the same capabilities but also share the same defects. An example of a monoculture is the potato famine in Ireland, where nearly 40% of all food consumed was a particular Read more…
Proprietary closed-source software solutions have the dubious honor of providing little or no advancement in the state of the art for computer technology. In fact, open software designs are the principal reason for the the success of the Internet. Without Read more…
Developers building applications with the Microsoft .NET platform are no doubt aware that a CLR (Common Language Runtime) is necessary in order for the .NET bytecode to execute. In essence, C# and VB.NET produce a intermediate representation of a computer Read more…