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| ==== Avoiding Vendor Lock-In ==== | ==== Avoiding Vendor Lock-In ==== | ||
| - | When designs follow open protocols, open standards, and open designs, it has much greater interoperability. You are no longer stuck with a single provider and forced to pay unreasonable prices. Instead, you get greater choice from more vendors. No more abusive monopolies! | + | Closed info providers deliberately design their systems so it is difficult or impossible to leave. They do this to ensure you become dependent on their ecosystem. For example, if you shop with Apple, you become dependent on their expensive ecosystem of iPhones and Macs. You must regularly pay them taxes in the form of new hardware/software upgrades and iCloud fees. These are part of the taxes they force you to pay. Over time, you find yourself becoming part of their property. But if you try to leave, you find it is extremely difficult to get out, often requiring months of work. This is their deliberate design -- closed info is designed to enforce economic feudalism. |
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| + | When designs follow open protocols, open standards, and open designs, it has much greater interoperability. You become the owner of your own info. Your data, software, and hardware are free, so you can choose any provider from the marketplace. In fact, you could become your own provider. You are no longer forced to pay unreasonable prices, and you are no longer treated like chattel. No more abusive monopolies! | ||
| ==== Privacy ==== | ==== Privacy ==== | ||