proprietary

[EnGorDiaz]

what software do you consider proprietary? im researching the matter

[I-75]

what software do you consider proprietary? im researching the matter

Microsoft Windows (all products)

Apple

Norton antivirus

Symantec

Tax Cut

Xandros/Linspire

I am sure there are thousands of others...

[gn2]

Proprietary = any software where the developer deems that the software is their property and doesn't make the source code freely available.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/proprietary

[EnGorDiaz]

Proprietary = any software where the developer deems that the software is their property and doesn't make the source code freely available.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/proprietary

would hp-ux mac osx and amiga be considered proprietary

[chucky chuckaluck]

nm.

[gn2]

would hp-ux mac osx and amiga be considered proprietary

Can you legally get copies of them for free?

Can you legally modify them to suit your needs?

Can you legally distribute copies (modified or as original) to your friends?

If no to any one of the above, then it's proprietary software.

[billgoldberg]

what software do you consider proprietary? im researching the matter

Anything not Open Source.

The price doesn't matter, you have free proprietary apps and Open Source software you have to pay for.

[EnGorDiaz]

thank you guys :)

[az]

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

[Bölvaður]

to sum it up in one sentence:

if the code is copyrighted, then it is propitiatory. (property of the company)

[lykwydchykyn]

to sum it up in one sentence:

if the code is copyrighted, then it is propitiatory. (property of the company)

- open source code is also copyrighted. If it were not you couldn't enforce the GPL, because you would have no ownership of the code or any moral right to dictate its use.

- propitiatory
A adjective
1 propitiative, propitiatory
intended to reconcile or appease; "sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture"

2 expiatory, expiative, propitiatory
having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"

[billgoldberg]

to sum it up in one sentence:

if the code is copyrighted, then it is propitiatory. (property of the company)

Not true.

See the GPL or the BSD license and a dozen others.

[Kvark]

Any software that doesn't fit the open source definition (http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php) is proprietary.

[Bölvaður]

- open source code is also copyrighted.
I was making it simple and short.

And no it wasnt very long ago since the GPL became seen as form of copyright in comparison to.. well traditional copyright laws.

When I said copyright I meant copyright in a traditional scene.

I know how hard it is to distinguish it like that as traditional copyright is named copyright, and copyrights as the GPL are different form of copyright, kind of a subset.
So they are both copyrights, with one of them actually named copyright, hence the (C) signs... and "Copyright : John Morgan Sheppard".

I guess we could just all say "all rights received" instead of (C), and try to force trademarks and companies to use that instead of (C) or the word copyright.

I hope you get my point.