But truly banning proprietary trading will take more than closing a few trading desks.
Making markets may create some additional exposure, but the truly risky behavior stems from proprietary trading (which so happens to be a potentially and historically very profitable arena, as high risks can produce high rewards).
But the bigger news would be if the music services and the device makers put aside their proprietary technologies and finally, truly, put the customer first.
Compared with the old proprietary approach, the Web had a truly worldwide reach -- even if going overseas meant little more, at first, than checking the Webcam that was trained on a coffee pot in a Cambridge University computer lab.
But what if it truly became the open-source alternative to the Google proprietary browser?
Since there already exist a plethora of cheminformatics toolkits both open source and proprietary, one might wonder whether there is truly a need for another one.
With insider trading information, full-text screening, and the fastest proprietary search-engine around, 10K Wizard should truly be every investor's first choice.
And as a proprietary platform, the Kindle is unlikely to ever truly embrace the power of networks.
Many of its critics remember when AOL was synonymous with constant busy signals, dropped connections, slow connection speeds, proprietary Web-browsing and e-mail software that was truly lousy,.
And since the shareholder's right to occupy the apartment is dependent upon compliance with the proprietary lease, he said, co-ops are generally successful in evicting truly troublesome tenant-shareholders.
