But in the new era of internet services, open standards predominate, rivals are always just a click away, and there is far less scope for companies to establish a proprietary lock-in.Try to avoid using Microsoft's software for a day, particularly if you work in an office, and you will have difficulty; but surviving a day without Google is relatively easy.
"We have to establish a proprietary standard so that when patients come in for a shot, they will demand a Powderject injection," he says.
Certainly the company has the ability to pull metadata out of the message body and establish a proprietary wrapper, as they've done with retweets.
In the PC era hardware became a commodity and Microsoft established a lucrative monopoly centred on its proprietary operating system, Windows.
In 1776, following the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Maryland threw off proprietary control and established a new constitution.
On the PC, digital distribution established a foothold in 2004, when Valve Software launched Steam, its proprietary online sales and delivery service.
Using combined base compositions from multiple PCRs, the identities of the pathogens and a semi-quantitative determination of their relative concentrations in the starting sample were established by using a proprietary algorithm to interface with the Ibis database of known organisms.
It also cited how Yashili's "business model integrates high brand recognition, imported premium dairy raw materials and a proprietary formula, and commitment to establish a high standard of quality supervision".
The incidents prompted the Ministry of Health of Singapore to recommend (1) enforcement activities on Chinese proprietary medicines (CPM), (2) establishing a CPM Advisory Committee to evaluate and grant licences on CPM products to manufacturers and importer/wholesalers, and (3) setting up a CPM Listing Unit to process applications for product listings or licensing.
