Sentence examples for instead of proprietary from inspiring English sources

The fight over the standard, while technically arcane, is commercially important because more governments are demanding interchangeable open document formats for their vast amounts of records, instead of proprietary formats tied to one company's software.

In January 2001, granted a few minutes with Mr. Fox at a social event, he asked the president to support open-source software instead of proprietary software, the kind Microsoft sells.

DistressNet is a large academic effort, proposing open systems, instead of proprietary solutions.

They didn't plump for an open system instead of a proprietary one for ideological reasons, but rather for eminently practical ones.

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, last week ordered Fannie Mae to use market values for the bonds instead of its proprietary estimates of their worth.

Many Asian Internet companies, analysts say, fail to offer any real innovation: they copy Western e-commerce models, put together with off-the-shelf technology instead of the proprietary software at the core of the most promising Internet companies in the United States.

In an all-out effort to show that it is not willing to become a mere assembler of handsets dependent on other companies' technology, Nokia is supporting what it calls an open, global approach to wireless networks, instead of a proprietary one based on Qualcomm's patent portfolio.

The Speex and GSM codecs were used instead of the proprietary g729.

Similarly, the OSLEC echo canceler was used instead of a proprietary echo canceler.

ActiveSync, the program that synchronizes the device with a PC, has been totally reworked using Internet protocols instead of the proprietary system of yore.

Instead of selling proprietary packaged software through retail and hardware partners, Microsoft says it will lease or "rent" the software as a service.