• sudneo@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Until I can easily export the data, where is the vendor lock?

    Vendor lock means that migrating away has significant cost or technical challenges.

    Take this case: documents saved are first of all easily downloadable from drive (in bulk), and also exportable in markdown.

    They change pricing/add features that I don’t want/sell off the company (hard now that it’s managed by a nonprofit but still) etc.? I make a nice bulk download and move everything in whatever other system I want. I can do the same for contacts, email (I use my own domains) and calendar. Basically, 1h + the time to download files and I am moved to another provider.

    Can you elaborate in what you think the vendor lock looks like?