The CrowdStrike Windows outage that hit the world this week stems back to an EU-Microsoft deal from 2009 that meant Microsoft had to give antivirus vendors the same Windows API access it had.
  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m sorry, but competition is good.

    Installing some closed blob into your kernel, that’s on you.

    The problem is if anything is not enough competition. We just saw a centralized monoculture fall over.