If you're going to invest in the latest fad proprietary 'thing', you have to be prepared to lose all your investment in that 'thing'.
Companies fail. All too often that proprietary 'thing' they had becomes non-supported and you have to just throw away everything you have connected with that 'thing' such as files written in formats that nothing can access, or hardware that there are no supplies for, etc, etc.
When was the last time that you were able to buy a 16-hard-sectored 8-inch floppy? When were you last able to access that Wang-written word-processing file? Can you even buy a fresh video-tape for a Betamax video recorder?
If you stick to open hardware and open software formats, you can still find them useful even decades after their makers have turned to dust.
Companies fail. All too often that proprietary 'thing' they had becomes non-supported and you have to just throw away everything you have connected with that 'thing' such as files written in formats that nothing can access, or hardware that there are no supplies for, etc, etc.
When was the last time that you were able to buy a 16-hard-sectored 8-inch floppy? When were you last able to access that Wang-written word-processing file? Can you even buy a fresh video-tape for a Betamax video recorder?
If you stick to open hardware and open software formats, you can still find them useful even decades after their makers have turned to dust.