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Justin Wells wrote:
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> Quoting Craig R. McClanahan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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> > * At the end of the day, no matter how cool WebMacro and
> > FreeMaker are, they are "proprietary" -- not in the sense of
> > being closed source, but in the sense of being maintained and
> > enhanced by a relatively small community of interested developers.
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> That is the strangest definition of "proprietary" I have ever seen.
> Essentially, you are saying that anything not declared standard by Sun
> is "proprietary".
>
It may come as a surprise to all the youngters out there :-), but some of
the buzzwords that we geeks have co-opted actually had a meaning BEFORE
there was such a thing as a computer!
"Proprietary" in this sense means either owned by, or available from, a
single source. The former (ownership) is part of what the open source
community hates about the word, but the latter (availability) is just as
valid a concern, and it is an issue in the case at hand.
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> Justin
>
Craig
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