And though the operating system will certainly remain proprietary, iPhone owners will see a new array of iPhone applications from outside developers next year.
But what I see around me is an "omni-proprietary" state, owner of the machines, the industries, the infrastructure of a nation and of all the decisions made about it.
With the company's proprietary app, home owners can schedule pick-ups and approve or reject agents and potential buyers based on their profile.
This requires making the product or technology proprietary to the owners.
Late last year the Yidindji government passed the Protection of Australia Act, which outlined its proprietary interest – as original owner and custodian – in protecting the commonwealth.
"The company intends to focus solely on commercialization of its proprietary social video offerings," owners Qlipso said in a statement (embedded below).
Confidential memos among the Rangers owners became part of the public record in subsequent litigation, and they paint a picture of the owners casting a proprietary eye over the area and then telling the city what land to seize.
"What we're talking about here is a tenant who is also a landlord," he said, referring to the defendant's status as a tenant under the proprietary lease, but a co-owner of the building as a shareholder.
The owners were so proprietary they wouldn't share the recipe with Jackie Kennedy when she wanted to serve it at the White House.
Typical proprietary leases make the co-op owner responsible for repairs to appliances, plumbing fixtures and exposed pipes in the apartment, as well as to pipes installed behind the walls, floors and ceilings by the current or a previous owner.
Historically, Israeli companies and their venture backers thought it sufficient to be the owner of unique and proprietary IP.
