Topic: Lock-in

Found 5 entries.

• “Open API” Is Not a Border Crossing: The Interoperability Myth

  Vendors claim their API allows you to leave anytime. Try to move a terabyte of case history through a rate-limited REST endpoint and see what happens.

• The Week We Bought a PDF Prison

  Why a 'Full Export' that delivers millions of PDFs is not a backup—it is a scorched earth policy designed to destroy your history.

• The Upgrade That Was Actually a Blockade

  When a vendor removes a feature and puts it behind a paywall, it is not an update. It is a siege. Here is how to write contracts that forbid functional regression.

• Budget Savings, Sovereignty Loss: The Trojan Horse Procurement

  Why the cheapest bid is often the most expensive mistake a municipality can make.

• “It’s Just a Small Pilot” Is How We Lose Strategic Autonomy

  Shadow IT and 'free trials' are the Trojan Horses of digital colonization. How to stop the drift into dependency.