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As others above have pointed out, the attitude you describe is the default stance of those with nothing to lose; “proprietariness” and “materialism” both result from investment in property, or the status quo.
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There are, however, still plenty who reject this attitude and approach, suffering from the combined malaise of “proprietariness”, “materialism”, and “consumerism”.
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It has a similar feel to developers but isn't hamstrung like Smalltalk was by proprietariness and expensive tools.
Ruby, Meet the Enterprise Neal Ford 2007
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Better to lose the proprietariness (the battle) and retain install-based dominance (the war).
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Better to lose the proprietariness (the battle) and retain install-based dominance (the war).
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Better to lose the proprietariness (the battle) and retain install-based dominance (the war).
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Participants compete to provide more and more nuanced and meaningless definitions of Open to justify and rationalize their closed or proprietariness.
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Better to lose the proprietariness (the battle) and retain install-based dominance (the war).
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But I remain confident that the same forces that wash away proprietariness in general purpose computers in the past will eat away at the iPad.
Haddock Blogs 2010
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What makes all of these solutions flimsy, however, is that they mask the underlying disconnects in infrastructure raised by the proprietariness of storage systems vendors on the one hand, and on the other, they cannot intercept every conceivable "illegal resource call" that an application riding in a VM might make to the underlying OS of the server - something that causes the Jenga Tower to topple almost every time.
DrunkenData.com 2008
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