Proprietaer

That more proprietaer (v. proprius "means own") associated, own, eigentumsfoermig.

Different meanings

  1. In the legal sense the term is more proprietaer "equivalent" to " protected ".
  2. Deviating from it the free often commodity movement uses the term for things, which are not "free". „proprietaere software"any software is not," is licensed, from this "freely", a in copyright matters protected program without revealed Source code however "more proprietaer". Well-known examples of proprietaerer software are: , Adobe Photoshop, or Macromedia Flash.
  3. One designates in ITRange traditionally such File formats, etc.. when, which not generally recognized standards correspond, quasi "internal" developments are "more proprietaer".
  4. Deviating from it the free often commodity movement designates file formats, etc.. as "more proprietaer", which do not correspond to "open" or "free" standards, D.h. such standards, which are capable of being implemented with free software. Examples of proprietaere file formats are that Ms Word format or that WMAFormat. Examples of not proprietaere, open formats are Ogg Vorbis, that is after 4. a proprietaeres format, since it is thus not longer freely capable of being implemented by actively validly made software patents loaded and, not however after 3., since it is an ISO standard.
  5. The patent-free counterpart Ogg Vorbis however a "free format" is after 4., however so far taken over by no large standardisation organization.
  6. Often internal developments are also undokumentiert and patent-loaded and thus more proprietaer according to both definitions, so that WMAFormat.

    7. Safety references

    Proprietaere software and proprietaere data formats (in the sense of 2. and 3.) potentially save a set of dangers, whose should be conscious one:

    • The technical details did not document only insufficiently often at all or, so that for example quality/security cannot to be examined have to trust by coding algorithms and the users alone for the data of the manufacturer.
    • With the change to a newer version of a software unforeseeable changes can occur, on the one hand in the software, on the other hand in the data formats.
    • With data exchange with programs of other manufacturers (s. Interoperability) problems can occur.
    • The user is bound to the measure gifts of the prop. guessing eras software.

    In principle these dangers exist also at not proprietaerer software. However the user the possibility has to deal with more or less expenditure this.

    Etymologie

    The word more proprietaer comes of proprietaire, of proprietarius. See also lat. proprietas,

     

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