Joël de Bruijn

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  • We as a species make up terms on a daily basis, so I feel the liberty to do the same. Glad it doesnt give any results because it indicates original thought.

    If large parts of the supply chain consist of suppliers (vendors) on the other side of the earth, one can focus on one vendor lock-in or one by one (for analytical purposes) and optimise for that but often the bigger picture of a complex supply chain is missed.

    Hence the aggregated lock-in.

    But to avoid futher confusion maybe supply-chain lock-in is a better term and yields searchs results.



  • Reading your post earlier and got me thinking: are there more then one community type? As in …

    There are FOSS communities which members find each other for FOSS sake.

    But a more divers sort of community often gathers around the application.

    For example, the OSMand community consists of cartography enthousiasts AND developers and everyone in between.

    Although I like your app (intention and application, no scope creap etc) it doesnt unite users around a common goal. Which doesnt matter much because its still usefull.

    Another example would be: Recently a website to convert student tests scores to grades started to ask money. If a FOSS app would provide this the community would consist also of teachers and test grading people.






  • I had roughly the same goals ( archive search 2 decades of mail) but approached it completely different: I export every mail to PDF with a strict naming convention.

    • Backend: No mailserver, just storage and backup for files.
    • Search: based on filenames FSearch and Void tools Everything. I could use local indexing on pdf content.
    • Frontend: a pdf viewer.