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 standards, 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.
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