• TCB13@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “After years of pushing their proprietary and closed solutions to privacy minded people Proton decided that it was in their best interest to further bury said users into their service as a form of vendor lock-in. To achieve this they made yet anoter non-standard groupware feature - a document editor.

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      6 months ago

      Exactly. At this point idk why anyone bothers migrating to things that are not backed by open standards. The price of vendor lock-in always comes.

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        6 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?