Furthermore, the open-source software movement is driven by the desire to dethrone the proprietary software model, embodied by Microsoft.
Having once owned a company called Mojo Softheads, which wrote and marketed the finance industry's standard software for structuring bonds based on pools of mortgages (yes, you may have heard of the unhappy consequences of this process), I can empathize with a firm's desire to protect its proprietary materials.
Given the huge variety of connected devices, and no doubt the desire of some firms to keep things proprietary, it is possible that no single standard ever emerges.
And it was proprietary, meaning it was yours forever to publish or mull endlessly as you desired.
In the Zeus group, the course of FAN2O is less consistent between patients than in the ADU group (compare figures 2 and 3) because high and low FGF alternate, steered by the proprietary algorithms of the Zeus® to combine the goals of achieving the desired target concentrations of the anesthetic gases and minimizing agent and gas consumption.
Specifically, Ms. Druyun agreed to a higher price for Boeing aerial refueling tankers than she thought appropriate and gave proprietary pricing data to Boeing "as a 'parting gift to Boeing' and because of her desire to ingratiate herself with Boeing, her future employer," according to court papers signed by Ms. Druyun and the government.
Couples keep their hands on each other, both proprietary and passionate, and cling together on the dance floor, acting out scenes of courtship and desire.
The southernmost territories of the duke, roughly encompassing northern Delaware, were desired by Charles Calvert, Baron Baltimore, who sought to extend the reach of his proprietary Province of Maryland into the area.
The calculation was proprietary.
Oracle is thinking proprietary.
