{"id":698,"date":"2005-02-05T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/02\/05\/the-microsoft-metaphor\/"},"modified":"2005-02-05T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T14:40:00","slug":"the-microsoft-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-microsoft-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Microsoft Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"
While not directly about sustainability, I found yesterday’s column by San Franicisco Chronicle<\/em> writer Mark Morford<\/a> (via The Higher Pie<\/a>) interesting in its attack on Microsoft and its near-monopolistic control of operating systems. The more I think about, the more I realize that Microsoft is a fitting symbol for an unsustainable model of production and consumption — the technological equivalent of monoculture. At the same time, I do have a criticism of Morford’s take — moving from Microsoft to Apple is also a fitting symbol of how we try to solve problems in our current midset — move from one single solution to another. I think the open source model provides a much more sustainable system for software development in that it’s evolutionary and distributed — “organic” if you will. Of course, all of the may be the result of the piece of old pizza I ate yesterday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While not directly about sustainability, I found yesterday’s column by San Franicisco Chronicle writer Mark Morford (via The Higher Pie) interesting in its attack on Microsoft and its near-monopolistic control [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n