You have a good point. This paints it as more of a societal problem than a legal one, and I think you're correct in hindsight. I think about my gamer friends,

You have a good point. This paints it as more of a societal problem than a legal one, and I think you're correct in hindsight. I think about my gamer friends, and they've resigned themselves to vendor lockin because "What choice do I have if I want to play with my friends?", something I've come to call the Facebook Argument. However, when I think about [some of] my colleagues, many of them don't like vendor lockin when it's applied to them, but aren't against implementing similar features in their own projects with a different name, and I have a hard time believing they don't see it for what it is. Edit: typo