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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: 100cfm who wrote (27883)7/14/2000 12:15:35 AM
From: Mike Buckley  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
100,

My version of proprietary means only company X can do Y with it's IP and no one else unless they are licensed to do so.

You obviously like monopolies. :)

What is your take as to "Proprietary"

The one in the manual. "Proprietary" simply means that it's yours alone, yours to do with as you see fit. Siebel's software is definitely proprietary. So is every single spreadsheet program, every word processing program, etc., etc.

The point of gorilla gaming is to identify the company whose proprietary product has been selected on a reasonably wide basis as the standard. That doesn't mean it's the only product that makes things happen, just that it's the adopted standard.

By the way, Nokia has CDMA cell phones too. They just don't quite work as well. So using your definition of proprietary, I'm not sure that any company would have a proprietary product.

I don't suppose you have a dictionary? :)

--Mike Buckley
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