Avoid Lock In

There are a number of important considerations when choosing to use, or avoid tools, and here we try and list them:

From Wikipedia Lock in : Lock-in means that a particular technology or product is dominant, not because its inherent cost is low or performance is good, but because it enjoys the benefits of increasing returns to scale.

From Wikipedia Embrace, extend and extinguish : is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] and was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.