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Proprietary software is an injustice. -- Richard Stallman
Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar. -- John Gutfreund
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Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware. -- Richard Stallman
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware. -- Richard Stallman
The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. -- Matt Mullenweg
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. -- Mos Def
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. -- Jimmy Wales
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software. -- Fred Wilson
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. -- Larry Wall
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software. -- Richard Stallman
A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment. -- Kevin Mitnick
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock. -- Kevin Mitnick
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software. -- Matt Mullenweg
As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. -- Clayton M. Christensen
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government. -- Iain Sinclair
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing. -- Richard Stallman
I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable. -- Jim Bankoff
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. -- Matt Mullenweg
I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price. -- Roy Romer
In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology. -- Vint Cerf
I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online. -- Jonathan Zittrain
During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way. -- Clayton Christensen
Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are. -- Mitchell Baker
Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power. -- Richard Stallman
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. -- Richard Stallman
The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple. -- Clayton Christensen
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail. -- Bernard Madoff
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about. -- Fran Lebowitz
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them. -- Eric S. Raymond
You're not the only one who can get possessive. I'm very proprietary about what's mine. -- Sylvia Day
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. -- Richard Stallman
Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software. -- Richard Stallman
We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. -- Hanna Rosin
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software. -- Richard Stallman
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People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story. -- Zack Snyder
Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things. -- Lewis Hyde
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code. -- Richard Stallman
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software. -- Richard Stallman

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