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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, adjective [L. proprietarius.] Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
{Proprietary articles}, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. --U. S. Statutes.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, noun; pl. {Proprietaries}. [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See {Propriety}, and cf. {Proprietor}.]
1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right. --Fuller.
2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
proprietary
adjective: protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights; "'Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which 'acetaminophen' is the generic form" [ant: {nonproprietary}]
noun: an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits [syn: {proprietorship}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "proprietary": balm, balsam, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, dominion, dominium, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, ethical drug, feoffee, feudatory, generic name, herbs, householder, inhalant, laird, land tenure, landed, landholding, landlady, landlord, landownership, landowning, lincture, linctus, lord, lordship, master, materia medica, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, mixture, nonprescription drug, officinal, overlordship, owner, ownership, patent medicine, pharmacon, physic, possession, possessive, possessorship, possessory, powder, preparation, prescription drug, propertied, property, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, proprietor, proprietorship, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, seigniory, simples, sovereignty, squire, syrup, theraputant, tisane, titleholder, vegetable remedies
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
proprietary adjective
1. In {marketroid}-speak, superior; implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's own hardware or software designers. 2. In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a product not conforming to open-systems standards, and thus one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor able to gouge freely on service and upgrade charges after the initial sale has locked the customer in. Often used in the phrase "proprietary crap". 3. Synonym for closed-source, e.g. software issued in binary without source and under a restrictive license.
Since the coining of the term {open source}, many hackers have made a conscious effort to distinguish between 'proprietary' and 'commercial' software. It is possible for software to be commercial (that is, intended to make a profit for the producers) without being proprietary. The reverse is also possible, for example in binary-only freeware.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
proprietary
1. In {marketroid}-speak, superior; implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's own hardware or software designers. 2. In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a product not conforming to {open-systems} {standard}s, and thus one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor who can inflate service and upgrade charges after the initial sale has locked the customer in. [{Jargon File}]
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