Sole-source-anonymous

We've been on a bender of sole-source proprietary software procurement. And because the tools dictate the way we work, we have also been on a kind of sole-source mindset bender.

Never fear, there is hope and a 12 step process.

Sole-source-anonymous 12-Step Program

1. We admitted we were powerless over software procurement from on high—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of communal development as we understood it.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our toolkit.
5. Admitted to the community, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
   
6. Were entirely ready to have transparent and interactive development and procurement remove all these defects of character
7. Humbly asked everyone to reveal and help remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through constant interaction and conscious infusion of diverse opinion to improve our conscious contact with the community as we understood it, hoping only for knowledge of their will and the power to carry that out
    
12. Having had a communal awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to sole-source addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Hugging is optional.


(If I offend, say so in the comments - it was not my intent to mock the 12-step program for AA but only for demonstrative purposes)