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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by TAForObvReasons on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:34PM (#23633525)
> starts being a liability

SaaS is all the rage now, and the business of SaaS is disincentivized from making "lego-like" software. The easier it is to interoperate, arguably the easier it is to replace or reimplement your service.

Because a lot of the value of unix tools is derived from their interoperability, they play nice with each other.

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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by _bxg1 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:49PM (#23633699)
Yeah, that is part of the problem too. Any for-profit corp would love to lock people in, and software megacorps no longer need to interoperate for their own survival. So we see increased lock-in across most of the (commercial) software world.

An interesting inverse-example is Slack, which does lots of interop with other services, because it isn't a trillion-dollar company that can attempt to give you everything you need under a single roof.

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