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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Confusing language,
 was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/04
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On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 04:51:59 GMT, tmoran@bix.com <tmoran@bix.com> wrote:
>>Just so no one else gets confused, Ada Core Technologies does
>>not deal in proprietary software at all. Our software is
>>copyrighted (mostly the copyrights are held by the Free Software
>  "Proprietary - Held under patent, trademark, or copyright by a
>private person or company."

Also:

>>From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]:
  proprietary
             produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights;
(Which, for the most part, ACT has none in GNAT.)             

>>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (07Oct99) [foldoc]:

  proprietary
  
          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.
  
As usual, there's more than one definition. I personally understood his
use perfectly, as would many programmers, even though it didn't match
any of those stated so far. 

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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org