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Re:The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes by papaf on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:56PM (#16285808)
There aught to be a name ..

I think that "vendor lock-in" comes close to describing the situation. However, it does not describe the way the dependence changes the behaviour of the people locked in. I think that "addiction" fits in this case.

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Re:The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes by zapita on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:08PM (#16285910)
That's not lock-in, it's just a dependency.

It would be lock-in if the vendor made it unreasonably difficult to remove the dependency.

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