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proprietary software

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proprietary software

Software owned by a single organization or individual. Contrast with open source. See public domain software, freeware and shareware.



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But Bev Harris, director of Black Box Voting, a nonpartisan, nonprofit election watchdog group, said she is concerned that the new system will only be used in Los Angeles County and the public cannot assess the reliability of its proprietary software.
VOTE SYSTEM'S FOREIGN LINKS RAISE CONCERN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The eight-month-long talent search--called "Code4 Bill"--coincides with another contest in India: the race between increasingly popular low-cost "open source" software and proprietary software like Microsoft Windows.
Mining India's talent by New York Times Upfront
When queried about comparing the security of open source versus proprietary software in eight categories, open source was the clear winner in four of the categories: desktop/ client operating systems (44% to 17%); Web servers (43% to 14%); server operating systems (38% to 22%); and components and libraries (34% to 18%).
Linux more secure than Windows, national survey shows by EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
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