Yeah, you're always going to be reliant on third parties in a complex world. What is important is how beholden or locked in you are in any given arrangement. If

Yeah, you're always going to be reliant on third parties in a complex world. What is important is how beholden or locked in you are in any given arrangement. If you are free to move from one contractor to another because they are all interoperable, then you're independent in a more important sense.