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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 ====
  
-Open Info is the only+Closed info services are full of spyware and malware. For example, Kape technologies used to package a piece of closed malware that posed as a flash installer. This installer would then inject ads into your browser without your permission. Google will track all your browsing habits and computer details, selling this data to advertisers.
  
-==== Control ​and Customization ====+Facebook'​s WhatsApp claims to protect your privacy with end to end encryption, but it is nothing but marketing whitewashing. Because we lack the source code, it is impossible for us to audit their claims about using secure encryption. In fact, we later discovered that they intercept your traffic ​and decrypt it in their client application. Moreover, WhatsApp requires a phone number connected to your real-world ID in order to register. So much for their claims of end-to-end privacy.
  
-  ​and networks to ensure that we have software that protects acy.+Now that our lives are becoming more dependent upon information technology, our credit cards, bank accounts, health records, telephone calls, business documents ​and more are at risk of being stolen or leaked because of the horrible privacy record of closed info services.
  
 +The only solution for this is software that allows you to audit the source code, and where the developers are transparent about what their software does. Having source code that anyone can audit helps keep developers honest. Open info services is the only real way to ensure your privacy.
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 +==== Control and Customization ====
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 +With Open Info software, it is possible to customize
  
 ==== Cultural ==== ==== Cultural ====
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 ==== Cost-effective ==== ==== Cost-effective ====
  
-==== Education ​and Transparency ====+==== Education ​==== 
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 +==== Transparency ====
  
 ==== Quality ==== ==== Quality ====
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 Our team's [[opensoftware:​contract|contract]] to each other and to our users. Our team's [[opensoftware:​contract|contract]] to each other and to our users.
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 +https://​tech.slashdot.org/​story/​20/​01/​24/​2156219/​ge-fridges-wont-dispense-ice-or-water-unless-your-water-filter-authenticates-via-rfid-chip