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CA makes a patent pledgeCA makes a patent pledgePosted Sep 8, 2005 7:15 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: CA makes a patent pledge by krishna Parent article: CA makes a patent pledge
I just don't like his definition of "proprietary".
"proprietary" is the opposite of "public domain", ie someone(s) own it. In other words, gcc is proprietary - the FSF owns it. Linux is proprietary - Linus amongst many others own it. Etc etc.
It's probably all down to MS (as usual) and their advertising campaign of "Unix is proprietary, Windows is open". They've changed the meaning. We now use "proprietary" like journalists use "hacker" - in a warped sense that no longer fits its etymology.
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CA makes a patent pledge Posted Sep 8, 2005 8:49 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Er, an arbitrarily high number of the words in the English language no longer `fit their etymology', depending on how far back you're willing to trace the etymologies. If you go back to PIE I'd expect the percentage to approach 100%.
Language changes. Live with it.
CA makes a patent pledge Posted Sep 8, 2005 8:57 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] Say "non-free", then. Which is what Debian uses, and sometimes FSF too.
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