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Re:Regretting the Golden Handcuffs: Beware the Costs of Burnout by SomeCallMeTim on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @03:44PM (#10161478)
>The vendor abandoned their technology

Don't forget the other half of this statement: I've always been concerned with basing a product on a locked-in technology from an unproven vendor.

And vendors do shut down. I've seen it happen many times. Sometimes they get eaten up by a "bigger fish" that wants to use their technology internally, and they then shut down the external service you were so fond of.

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Re:Regretting the Golden Handcuffs: Beware the Costs of Burnout by lyonheart on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:50AM (#10163519)
Author here: In our case the vendor was very proven, but the tech and their approach to it was not. What actually happened is a bit more complicated than _abandoned_, but those words got the point across without delving into the irrelevant.

Needless to say, I am _very_ leery now of the motives of open-source products that aren't run like open-source projects.

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