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A term for various techniques commonly used by [Proprietary] software vendors to make it harder for their customers to switch to the competition. These techniques include:
-* The use of proprietary data formats by the software, specifications for which are difficult or impossible to get, thereby limiting the customers’ ability to move their own data into software from other vendors.
+* The use of proprietary [
data formats|FileFormat]
by the software, specifications for which are difficult or impossible to get, thereby limiting the customers’ ability to move their own data into software from other vendors.
* The use of proprietary [API]s and communication [Protocol]s, again limiting the customers’ ability to freely move data to and from software provided by other vendors.
