MR. BERNSTEIN: That's proprietary, but often enough that it's worth our while to do it, and it's a lot of peoples' time.
Many industry insiders said they still expected the existing portal companies to merge with each other or be acquired by companies like AOL Time Warner, which could absorb losses while developing enough proprietary content to try switching to a fee-based service.
Although a long history of disagreement between the principals on each side probably did not help matters, a basic obstacle was an impasse between the public consortium's desire to make the information in the genome freely available to all researchers and the need of the private company, Celera, for enough proprietary safeguards to make a profit.
In this it is heartily seconded by the proprietary parties, which, though willing enough to make strikes illegal and proletarian labour compulsory, will not pay the price of surrendering its own power to idle.
It's not just a budget issue but also one of museum identity: if a museum is known for organizing big but short-lived surveys and staging shows on loan from New York, is it giving visitors enough to feel proprietary excitement about and inspire them to keep coming back?
"So I think the philosophical change is you cannot get to the market fast enough on a proprietary basis.
Of course, once again, BlackBerry's hoping brand loyalty and a proprietary software suite will be enough to set it apart from the pack.
Steve Bobrowski, a consultant who runs a blog called The Cloud View, said Salesforce.com's proprietary programming language, APEX, is close enough to the Java language that many developers learn to be productive with it quickly.
If using proprietary snack foods in your cooking is good enough for Ferran Adria, it is good enough for me.
What has to be proprietary to Ford, and are we putting enough resources in those areas?
