Joel Spolsky has a different take on the differences between the operating systems in his article Biculturalism. Microsoft succeeds not because it’s good, but because there’s only one of them. He discusses much more than diversity, and I believe the more interesting parts of his talk are on other topics, but he begins and ends with diversity. The number of UNIX variants has grown to dozens, with more expected. ‘‘The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.’’ - The UNIX Programmer’s Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972. He opens his presentation with a couple of quotes to set this up. Rob Pike gave a presentation in 2001 entitled “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy.” His main point is that diversity has been bad for Unix.
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