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Usually youll find vendor lock ins because the actual hard part of this isn’t legal, it’s building a user base from non-technical users. And that usually requires having your standard included with platforms they already use.

This is why (for example) Google Drive and OneDrive have become so popular despite Dropbox being first to market.

There’s plenty of other file transfer solutions out there too but you’ll find the un-siloed ones will be lesser known than the siloed ones simply because of the power of $$$