Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 11/26/05 17:01

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:22:09 GMT, Oli Filth <catch@olifilth.co.uk>
wrote:

>Onideus Mad Hatter said the following on 26/11/2005 10:37:
>> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:22:58 GMT, Michael Winter
>> <m.winter@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>>>>Those filters aren't proprietary actually [...]
>>>
>>>The filter property, and the features that it provides, are proprietary.
>>
>> WRONG!
>
> From the OED:
>
>*proprietary* (adjective):
>1. relating to or characteristic of an owner or ownership.
>2. (of a product) marketed under a registered trade name.

They don't own the tag, Kiddo. Anyone can make a browser and make up
whatever HTML syntax they like and have said syntax do whatever they
like, in this particular case the syntax calls a function to make use
of DirectX transform filters, which are NOT proprietary to Internet
Explorer, but Microsoft. Just because Microsoft makes Internet
Explorer and DirectX does not make any part of DirectX proprietary to
Internet Explorer, since ANY program can make use of it.

Also, your definition is out of date:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary

"Proprietary indicates that a party exercises private ownership,
control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of
other parties."

There's no exclusion here, Kiddo.

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Onideus Mad Hatter
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