The cost of monoculture
Laurent | January 26, 2007 | 11:53 amI always believed that South Koreans were rather lucky when it comes to early adoption of new technologies.
Wrong.
This nation is also a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows. This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation’s e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions because all encrypted communications online in this nation must be done with Active X controls.
Read the rest of the article here. It’s quite an eye opener.
