But you're still comparing apples to oranges. As far as vendor lock in, yes that is a concern, but do you cut off your nose to spite your face? I think you'd say absolutely, but most others would think twice and realize the value of having a nose and face (even though one may not be that pretty).
When a solution comes along that promises to give you freedom from vendor lockin, as open-source tools like Apache and Linux do, you plan a migration to those tools.
As the industry is currently doing.
The os IS a tool, just like a hammer or a truck. And consider what it would do to all other industries if the hammer, or the truck, were sold with a software type license -- trucks would be sold on a 'per driver' or 'per delivery' basis. The trucking industry would be bankrupt. They'd never go for it.
And now the software industry has grown beyond this kind of vendor lock in, too.
You in all your guises will eventually have to address that point.
You can not even begin to make any headway in this until you do. All this fussing about commies and foreign pirates is really, really working against you.
Similar to the "if you drive SUV's you support terrorists" silliness. The argument is *so* transparently silly it turns people against you and your position.
As you've noticed here, and I'm sure everywhere else you've tried them.