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The Tyranny of Choice

Story: The Virtues of MonocultureTotal Replies: 0
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phsolide

Apr 26, 2007
3:35 PM EDT 		The author of this "Virtues" of monoculture is sort of correct.

If you read the economics literature, you find things like the research of Sheena Iyengar: http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/articles.html

Multiple papers about how too much choice demotivates people, etc etc.

I mention this to defend Dinotrac in the other thread attached to this article, and I put it in a new thread so as not to get lost in the hubbub.

I personally do think that MS rewards stupidity and ignorance, but the economics literature supports Dinotrac's assertions. I don't know about the link between "too many FLOSS choices" and "MS rewarding stupidity and ignorance", though.

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