To the average consumer Android should be able to add smartphone functionality to a number of odd devices, including phones that once depended on proprietary, no-name operating systems like the Motorola RAZR.
The issue is somewhat akin to Americans complaining about the rise of Spanish in classrooms and elsewhere, but more acute here because of France's special, proprietary, albeit no longer entirely realistic relationship to French.
And that they had a model that was proprietary, and no one else knew better than they.
Instead Sony has hurt itself by insisting on using its own proprietary standards, no matter what the market demands.
Winer's on record as doubting Twitter's ability to win with a proprietary model, no matter that revenue is not a current concern.
Once complete, the image can be named and saved as a jpg, png, pdf, svg or proprietary format (no gif or tiff for now), uploaded to your Skitch page or dragged to the desktop or other application.
Of course, that would be proprietary, and no on the Web.
But like all of us -- including you and all these bloggers I've discovered -- if you care about prepdom, you have a kind of passionate proprietary feeling like, "No one knows it like I know it, or no one knows about this arcane business of collars and cuffs and monograms," so I did it.
There's a lot of language in the law, and you can say it's just language, but a lot of language to say, yes, we really do mean no proprietary trading and the regulators have a lot of authority to how they go about developing protections against proprietary trading, however much is said.
And most proprietary leases contain no such prohibition, either.
