And their proprietary nature is also inevitable: only when a technology is established do standards emerge.
But they are freshly hatched, unselfconscious, curiously innocent, less knowing, not yet stamped with copyright signs declaring their proprietary nature.
Babbage believes it was simply a matter of cost exacerbated by the proprietary nature of the FireWire standard.
Carter consistently blurs the differences that still exist between fundamentalism and religious forms or movements that share none of its aggressively proprietary nature.
In contrast, the proprietary nature of mobile phone records prevented their use as a tool to support the humanitarian response during the recent Ebola crisis.
"I think there was a lot of risk-taking happening in London that was of a proprietary nature," Mr. DiBacco said he told investigators, DealBook reports.
He also objected to the proprietary nature of the software, saying Apple believed "that all standards pertaining to the Web should be open".
If someone becomes ill in another state or on the other side of town, barriers, born from the proprietary nature of public and private health systems, keep electronic information from helping the doctor treat the patient.
"I think there was a lot of risk-taking happening in London that was of a proprietary nature," the manager, John DiBacco, said he had told investigators from the accounting firm of KPMG who were examining the huge losses at UBS's exchange traded-funds desk in November 2011.
Others are concerned about the proprietary nature of the venture.
