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Proprietary - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Proprietary : adj : protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or
produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights;
"`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which
`acetaminophen' is the generic form" [ant: nonproprietary]
(noun)
1: an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is
responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its
profits [syn: proprietorship]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Proprietary : \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, a. [L. proprietarius.]
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as
property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some
person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.
--U. S. Statutes.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Proprietary : \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, n.; pl. Proprietaries. [L.
proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See Propriety, and
cf. Proprietor.]
1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a
thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing
in his own right. --Fuller.
2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to
himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the
time of profession.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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PROPRIETARY. In its strict sense, this word signifies one who is master of
his actions, and who has the free disposition of his property. During the
colonial government of Pennsylvania, William Penn was called the
proprietary.
2. The domain which William Penn and his family had in the state, was,
during the Revolutionary war, divested by the act of June 28, 1779, from
that family and vested in the commonwealth for the sum which the latter paid
to them of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds sterling.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Proprietary :
1. In marketroid-speak, superior; implies a product imbued
with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the
company's own hardware or software designers.
2. In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a
product not conforming to open-systems standards, and thus
one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor who can
inflate service and upgrade charges after the initial sale has
locked the customer in.
[{Jargon File]
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Proprietary : adj. 1. In marketroid-speak, superior; implies a product
imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's
own hardware or software designers. 2. In the language of hackers and
users, inferior; implies a product not conforming to open-systems
standards, and thus one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor
able to gouge freely on service and upgrade charges after the initial
sale has locked the customer in. Often used in the phrase "proprietary
crap". 3. Synonym for closed-source, e.g. software issued in binary
without source and under a restrictive license.
Since the coining of the term open source, many hackers have made a
conscious effort to distinguish between `proprietary' and `commercial'
software. It is possible for software to be commercial (that is,
intended to make a profit for the producers) without being proprietary.
The reverse is also possible, for example in binary-only freeware.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Proprietary |
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DaithiGunn: @trentono :) they are all Proprietary |
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adelie42: @creativecommons I have very nearly gotten Proprietary culture out of my life for 2 years. Culture is worth sharing; thanks CC |
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Joanmarie: Is Vermillion basically spec-files/trunk minus Proprietary stuff or something else? (I ask b/c spec-files/trunk is still largely GNOME 2.28) |
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