The word that is "Proprietary"

[David Johnson]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, W. Yip wrote:
> At the risk of nit-picking:
> 
> I wish to make a probably novel suggestion that the Open Source Community
> replace the word 'proprietary' with the word 'commodity' in our literature.

"Commodity" is just as bad as "proprietary". It means something that is
sold. And open source software is certainly sold (at least that's what
everyone tells me). Furthermore, "commodity" also defines a class of
products more akin to open source than closed.

Why not just take the most sensible term, "closed source software"?

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David Johnson...
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