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
    75•10 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.