seeing as how it was insanely profitable for IBM to lock some of its customer's apps on POWER or their older mainframe architectures, it'll probably be the case that lock-in is popular and inevitable until some open standard comes along which the consensus of developers decide is better and they force a migration to it via the market
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 14.1 ms ] threador will each be forever a slave to the conglomerate whose hardware hosts its self? able to move or copy to like hardware, but never escape the brand?