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If there's any lock-in at all it doesn't matter if you call it open
- aneth 16y agoNobody starts a company to target a market with the goal of being replaceable. Let's say you were going to sell cars. Should you publish all your designs and manufacturing techniques so that the marketplace is "fair"?
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoA free market for capitalist competition? Yes, it's a quaint notion isn't it.
- idiginous 16y agoCars are replaceable. A few years ago I bought a Toyota. Then I got tired of it so I bought a BMW. No one has me locked in, I'm free to switch. So they have to compete to keep me as a customer (or in the case of BMW to get me back, I was a former BMW driver).