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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Y'all are fundamentally talking about different things and are failing to see why they are different.

Vendor lock in from proprietary software is not the same thing as vendor lock in from using vendors hardware.

Both are bad, but they are not the same, and conflating the two is misunderstanding the point. Just like the original meme misunderstood the point.