History has shown us how damaging it can be to funnel ourselves down a single proprietary path, no matter how popular a particular platform is at a particular point in time.
It can even damage organisations who originally benefit from the lock-in: one only needs to look at the trouble Microsoft is having getting people to move on from Windows XP. A lot of that is due to the general move away from desktops to mobile platforms, but early on a great deal was due to organisations having bought or built internal applications on top of Internet Explorer 6 & that did not work with Internet Explorer 7 or later, so would not work on newer Windows platforms....
Keep things open - make a bigger pie, rather than just trying to take all of the pie for yourself...
It can even damage organisations who originally benefit from the lock-in: one only needs to look at the trouble Microsoft is having getting people to move on from Windows XP. A lot of that is due to the general move away from desktops to mobile platforms, but early on a great deal was due to organisations having bought or built internal applications on top of Internet Explorer 6 & that did not work with Internet Explorer 7 or later, so would not work on newer Windows platforms....
Keep things open - make a bigger pie, rather than just trying to take all of the pie for yourself...
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