Comment by TheRealPomax

Almost as if different clauses can impart different context to the same word. The data is not locked, provided you have the application that manages that data. If you want to call it "locked" then "the application itself turns it into unlocked data for you".

That argument that a proprietary file format "locks" data ignores the fact that it's the pair {application, file} that determines whether your data is locked away or not. For instance: Microsoft Word data? not locked. You can trivially export it in quite a lot of ways. Can you easily get it from a traditional .doc file? Hell no, but that doesn't mean the data itself is inaccessible. Instead of using sqlite, or xslt, or PERL, or whatever, you use word.