Sentence examples for a proprietary standard from inspiring English sources
Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, a trade group representing writers, said, "The fear of piracy will drive publishers to accept a proprietary standard like this, and once someone is in that position they are locked in".
In this regard, the court has rejected plaintiffs' suggestion that the imposition of liability, in any way, condemns decisions to depart from industry standards or to utilize a proprietary standard in the absence of deception regarding the departure.
KaZaA declined in popularity (from 90% of all file-swapping traffic to 20% over the past year, according to one estimate) because its users were being sued by the music industry, but also because it was a proprietary standard.
The framework highlights the strategic potency of controlling a proprietary standard in a vertically related market.
"We have to establish a proprietary standard so that when patients come in for a shot, they will demand a Powderject injection," he says.
3Com, the U.S. company whose Palm Computing makes the popular Palm Pilot electronic organizers, has a third proprietary standard, Palm OS, for wireless access to the Internet.
ODB++ is a proprietary format controlled by Valor and now Mentor, and so, like all proprietary standards, it comes with the risk of vendor lock-in.
There are essentially two types of VoIP consumer services: Skype, which has a proprietary technological standard, and most everything else, using a common version of a standard called SIP.
"I regard it almost as a law of nature that anytime an Internet-based standard is good enough, it will take over the volume business from the proprietary standard," Mr. WladawsaidBerger said.
For comparison, we also analyze networks based on the proprietary standard Z-Wave.
Since Korea is already a 100% CDMA country, Zhu's nod to those Korean mobile-telecom equipment makers that specialize in CDMA equipment reaffirms China's commitment to Qualcomm's proprietary standard.
