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Platform lock-in refers to the situation where, after a user becomes deeply tied to a platform through data formats, workflows, or collaborative relationships, migration costs become extremely high; the value of open-source tools lies in being auditable, exportable, and self-hostable, but open source does not automatically equal no lock-in.
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