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vendor lock-in

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Software maintenance – are you feeling locked-in?

By dlambert ⋅ March 24, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

In the early days of shrink-wrapped PC software, I used to buy a software title and not expect to pay anything more for that software until I decided to upgrade it. I might upgrade when the publisher released a new title, or I might skip a release — it was up to me to decide. [...]

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