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All societies attempt to balance their member's individual freedom against the commonweal.
This conflict also manifests itself in the information technology context. Increased flexibility and choice in accomplishing technology-dependent goals often results in decreased group value due to incompatabilities and increased support costs. For example, electronic collaboration is possible only if all the members of a workgroup use the same brand and version of wordprocessing software. If some use a different wordprocessor, sharing documents gets more complex and sometimes impossible. Other costs are more subtle.