proprietary

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Startling to see a proprietary clone of IRC (albeit with some nice extra features, namely history) Really?

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A proprietor or owner.

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noun

A proprietor or owner.

noun

The rights of a proprietor.

noun

A body of proprietors, taken collectively.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for proprietary.

noun

A proprietor or owner.

noun

The rights of a proprietor.

noun

A body of proprietors, taken collectively.

noun

A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

Example sentences

Startling to see a proprietary clone of IRC (albeit with some nice extra features, namely history) Really?

It's a completely misguided fallacy to assume that encapsulation only happens due to politics and proprietary software.

One of the things that always amazed me is people's willingness, or excitement to be pinned to one proprietary networking system.

The main change when Apple purchased the project was a license change to allow proprietary drivers when running on OS X.

Making the proprietary company build system do things it wasn't precisely designed to do...

Startling to see a proprietary clone of IRC (albeit with some nice extra features, namely history) come along and start taking over.

I dislike their proprietary approach to things, which is fine because there are lots of other choices.

Hell iOS has its own proprietary messaging system and people use that.

You might have a point, but why would, for instance, iOS uses its own proprietary emojis if everybody that has Android cannot see them?

And so you couldn't mix emoji and text, now that would be convenient and absolutely wouldn't lead to proprietary emoji implementations in private unicode fields at all.

Having to use a proprietary client sucked, though.

It just feels so proprietary and exclusionary.

Quote examples

Right now overpriced equipment, "robots" with software that barely works (Microscopes that use proprietary image formats....).

Firstly, we would refer to them as proprietary or non-free binaries (perhaps even user-subjugating), not "closed source".

The thing is, emojis were being used (appeared in the 90s), and spreading (how many people used various tricks and hacks to "unlock" emojis in older iOS versions despite not being in Japan?), so the unicode consortium could either standardise it, or see the number of proprietary extensions increase further and less and less people give a flying fuck about their registry.

So what you're saying is that first there's a period of "proprietary extension" which we should shun because that's evil incarnate, then one day someone flips a switch and it becomes a standard and we mock the people left behind.