Richard Stallman

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless.

Scientist

John Knoll

I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.

American Artist

Jonathan Zittrain

I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online.

American Educator

Vint Cerf

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

American Scientist

John Sulston

In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.

British Scientist

Ritesh Agarwal

Strong focus on customer experience coupled with strategic investments in proprietary technology has helped us maintain a high net promoter score while empowering our hotel partners.

Indian Businessman

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment.

American Businessman

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

American Author

Matt Mullenweg

The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.

Chuck Berry

Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

American Musician

Refers to products or information controlled by one entity, without sharing rights with others.

Exclusive Control

Unlike open-source software, proprietary cannot be freely modified or distributed.

Not Open Source

You may need to pay to use proprietary items legally because they're not free to use.

Licensing Required

Indicates the person who has legal ownership and responsibility of a business.

Business Ownership

A proprietary is typically one person with total control, not a group or partnership.

Single Owner

When a product is proprietary, it is the only one of its kind sold by a company.

Market Exclusivity

Proprietary often highlights a product's brand as unique and significant.

Brand Importance

Proprietary items are usually designed to work within specific systems or brands.

Not Interchangeable

 uses or none now normally this is where I would turn to the scientific community for help but no one seems to be doing a ton of research on how dry erase markers work I guess they have better things to do the dry erase marker companies have probably done all this work but all that information is proprietary so what do we

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 for five days the last thing I will say is that we want our world wide of robots to be open it can't be proprietary it can't be locked up in one single application it has to be open it has it's more about community than just software or systems and so to do this we've we've created the robot web tools

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 a toll how so many millions of people could die from the want of information from the want of information most most sadly most like infuriatingly from the want of information that is so easily accessible information that you don't need it's not proprietary information

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 and the implications of this bias can be massive. Let's look at the implications of the census data. Census is the most trusted, open and publicly available rich data on population composition and characteristics. While businesses have proprietary information

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 Let me define the terms really quickly. Every single person, every single organization on the planet knows what they do, 100 percent. Some know how they do it, whether you call it your differentiated value proposition or your proprietary process or your USP.

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 How is that model of colossal sharing across all of those kinds of databases compatible with the business models of institutions and organizations and corporations that are involved in this business today? If your business is based on proprietary data,

Philip Evans: How data...

 and scientists around the world have tested tens of thousands of these materials to find ones that are good at delivering mRNA safely. And because they're made in the lab, they tend to be proprietary to the company that invented them.

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 But this means that protected information, whether copyrights, proprietary materials, or state secrets can also be represented as numbers, so possessing or publishing these numbers may be treated as a criminal offense.

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 People have actually been working on this for decades. Here's the commercial scaffolds can be really expensive and problematic, because they're sourced from proprietary products, animals or cadavers.

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 to the way the incentives, economic and otherwise, are built into the system. We have to face and try to deal with the lack of transparency created by the proprietary algorithms,