Is there no way to have the best of both via some specified revisitation of the spec, or sunsetting of the original provision? It seems like a sunset period of 5 years would enforce the global switch without a permanent lock-in. Potential downside is that it might hamper development of alternatives, but that’s also the point.
>>etraut+(OP)
That all sounds well and good until you're the department head of the 1000 person floppy processing division and it comes time to cut the entire division.