From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 09:45:01 EST
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 14:26, ericzen wrote:
> On 2002.11.11 03:37 Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > http://smac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/http_webster?method=exact&isindex=proprietary
>
> Whether or not
> "proprietary" is accurate has already spent years in debate (from gimp
> and xdisplay/display LISP(image magick). Proprietary is the correct
> term, despite the Jargon file's (or your own) connotative definition.
Not "mine", at least, but Jargon File is only the third of 4 (or fourth
of 5 counting webster as double, due to different versions) of the
listed definitions in the url I supplied.
However, using 'own', which is a similar word (according to Webster's
entries), you say the same thing without the secondary prejudicial
meanings of proprietary.
Hugs, Rui
-- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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