OME provides Bio-Formats, a tool that fully parses more than 120 proprietary image formats and converts proprietary metadata to the OME-XML data model.
That unifying creed is this: Open platforms promote innovation and diversity more effectively than proprietary ones.
Firefox's open-source architecture means it has been tested and tweaked by far more people than proprietary browsers like Internet Explorer from Microsoft.
Many firms now know that it offers more flexibility than proprietary programs, the licences for which often include restrictions on how they can be used, explains Matthew Aslett, of the 451 Group, a market-research firm.
In the development of the civil (or Roman) legal system, possession tended to assume more importance than proprietary rights, and the same is true of the common-law (or Anglo-American) system.
The term "open source" may sound like an invitation to be hacked, but Linux is often more secure than proprietary systems.
Wreal points out in the initial complaint that the two products are very similar, noting that "the FireTV is nothing more than a proprietary STB that performs a substantially similar, if not identical, function to the proprietary STB marketed under the FyreTV trademark".
Where VCs invest comes down to a lot more than just proprietary deal flow.
