> They may be nice folks today, but who knows who will run the place in 5y when the next round of squeeze comes?
The same idea applies to political questions. A politician I like is proposing a policy I approve of. Great! Now what happens in the next election cycle, when a politician I don't like gets to use that same power to do something I don't approve of? Woops.
We can vote for different politicians after a few years. The politicians can vote to remove laws that were problems. There’s a straight-forward solution to that.
Building critical features on a single, closed-standard database means you can’t leave unless you rewrite all code that relied on it. The new code must integrate in the system well. The change must also happen without taking down the business.
For these reasons, politicians and laws change regularly but companies rarely escape database lockin.
The same idea applies to political questions. A politician I like is proposing a policy I approve of. Great! Now what happens in the next election cycle, when a politician I don't like gets to use that same power to do something I don't approve of? Woops.