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English Dictionary: proprietary	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for proprietary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Antonym(s): nonproprietary n an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits Synonym(s): proprietorship, proprietary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Proprietary \Propri"etary\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Proprietary \Propri"eta*ry\, n.; pl. {Proprietaries}. [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propri[82]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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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 in the phrase "proprietary crap". 3. Synonym for closed-source, e.g. software issued in binary without source and under a restructive 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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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} {standard}s, 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}]